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A Texas DNA Lab Cracked the 1995 Murder of Catherine Edwards
Othram, a forensic genetic genealogy start-up in The Woodlands, is helping law enforcement identify bodies and solve hundreds of decades-old crimes.
David Mittelman’s path to Othram began in 1997, when he landed an internship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, working on the Human Genome Project —the thirteen-year, $3 billion effort to map our entire genetic composition. That has kind of flipped now.” After earning a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from UT Dallas and his doctorate, David took a professorship at Virginia Tech, where he won a National Institutes of Health grant to research the use of genetic data for medical diagnosis and treatment. The company hosts a private genetic database where users can upload their DNA data in hopes of helping solve a crime, and it has launched dozens of crowdfunding campaigns to finance work on cold cases around the country.
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