Cold Case Solved from 1999 in Southeast Alabama

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New crime solving technique may have created break in 1999 murder cases of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett

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Local News

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Information gathered indicates DNA collected at the crime scene was uploaded to a database where anyone can share their data from consumer DNA testing companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com to search for relatives who have submitted their DNA. The DNA data revealed matches equivalent to relatives of the crime scene DNA. Other information allowed law enforcement to close in on a single person.

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Beasley and Hawlett were both 17 in 1999 when they planned to attend a field a party in Headland. The girls were found in the trunk of Beasley’s abandoned vehicle on Herring Avenue in Ozark on the morning of Aug. 1. Each year, family members of the two girls have held a vigil on the side of the road where the girls were found.

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Crazy that they solved this through 23andme or ancestry.com by finding a relative with a close match of DNA.