By Celina Tebor, Gili Remen and Nouran Salahieh | CNNA Michigan man is facing felony charges after DNA from a coffee cup linked him to two rapes in different states from more than 20 years ago, a prosecutor said. The charges are the latest stemming from advances in investigative genetic genealogy leading authorities to a suspect in a decades-old cold case. Investigators at the time obtained DNA but didn’t have a suspect, the sheriff said. Authorities were able to narrow the list to Rillema after Michigan police obtained a DNA sample by following him and taking his DNA from a Styrofoam coffee cup, according to McGraw. “That was sent off to the lab and the DNA taken from the coffee cup matched the DNA of the perpetrator of the 1999 and 2000 rapes,” McGraw told CNN.

Source: CNN April 28, 2023 00:23 UTC