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Genetic genealogy helps solve 1988 murder of newborn found in Wichita Falls laundry bin

Genetic genealogy helps solve 1988 murder of newborn found in Wichita Falls laundry bin
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A nearly 40-year-old Wichita Falls cold case has ended with a guilty plea after investigators used forensic investigative genetic genealogy to identify the mother of a newborn baby boy found dead in a laundry bin in 1988. Tammy Sue Kerns, who now lives in Atlanta, pleaded guilty to second-degree mur

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