https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-yarborough-how-investigators-tracked-down-teens-killer

Investigators didn’t sit on a genetic genealogy report for over two years. They didn’t wait over 1o months to run the suspect’s DNA. They had a surname. They narrowed down the family lineage. They obtained the suspect’s DNA from discarded items at a laundromat. They arrested the man, searched his home, brought him to trial and convicted him. And that’s how they solved an almost 30-year-old murder of a 16-year-old girl who was on her way to drill practice at her high school.

They didn’t drag their feet. They didn’t bitch about the costs of a genetic genealogy search. They got the job done.

The files in the OCCK case will demonstrate no similarities with this investigation. That is, if anyone can ever gain access to files from 2019-the present given the eternally “open” (but hardly “active”) characterization of the OCCK case.