“It bothered me all my life,” she said, choking up. She looked through newspapers, wrote letters to God, prayed, always wondering what happened to her mother.
A grave marker where an unknown person is buried is shown in Harris County Eastgate Cemetery Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 in Crosby. There are a number of graves in county cemeteries with people who have died are buried and are never identified.Many Texas forensic labs aren’t equipped to perform more advanced tests necessary to conduct genetic genealogy.While experts estimate Texas has at least 20,000 unsolved homicides, most of the state’s police departments don’t have cold case units or detectives.
The federal government has spent hundreds of millions clearing out untested sex-assault kits — but allocated only $4 million for genetic genealogy to dig into nameless dead cases. They weren’t rich, but most of Thomas’ children made their ways into middle class careers at local chemical companies or in public service jobs, as educators and firefighters.
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