Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve cold cases.

A forensic technology that has set wrongfully convicted murderers free and jailed famed serial killers just landed its first arrest in NSW.

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Despite decades of chasing leads, investigators had been unable to identify the victim of a 1992 homicide on the North Side.

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