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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>17-year murder cold case is cracked by DNA match from a genealogy website</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Benjamin Holmes, 38, is arrested for 2001 cold case murder of student who was shot dead in her apt in Orlando, Fla</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Holmes, 38, tripped after three of his relatives signed up to genealogy website and police matched their samples to DNA found at the crime scene</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Benjamin Holmes is accused in the 2001 murder of Christina Franke &#8211; </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The 25-year-old student was shot dead in her apt during a robbery</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Her case remained unsolved until killer&#8217;s relatives sent DNA to GEDmatch</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>A lab that was working with police and had DNA left at Franke&#8217;s murder scene compared that with GEDmatch&#8217;s open database</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>They found a match with the relatives and police questioned the family, </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>eventually, testing Holmes DNA</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He was arrested him for the crime, and he&#8217;s </strong></span><strong><span style="color: #000000;"> now in custody on a single homicide charg</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">e </span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-301287" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Benjamin-Holmes-1.jpg" alt="Benjamin Holmes 1.JPG" width="670" height="859" />Cold case murder suspect Benjamin Holmes 38, was arrested last week for the 2001 murder of Orlando student Christine Franke, after his relatives submitted their DNA to an ancestry website </strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">An arrest has been made in a 17-year-old murder case after police matched DNA samples found at the crime scene to those of the suspect&#8217;s relatives through a genealogy website.<br />
Benjamin Holmes, 38, was arrested on Friday for the murder of Christine Franke during a 2001 home invasion. The 25-year-old college student was shot dead during a robbery at her apartment in Orlando, Florida.<br />
For years, her case remained unsolved despite numerous attempts by police to crack it.<br />
Those attempts included teaming up with Parabon Nanolabs, a DNA testing website who were given a sample of DNA found at the crime scene.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-301290" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Franke-1.jpg" alt="Christine Franke 1" width="754" height="583" />25-year-old student Christine Franke, [photo] was shot dead in her apt during a robbery in 2001. </strong></strong><strong>Benjamin Holmes, has been arrested for the crime, 17 years later</strong><strong><strong><br />
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<div> In May this year, they found a match with three people on the website GEDMatch, an open data personal genomics database and genealogy website, and notified police who contacted the people who had submitted the samples.<br />
After ruling those relatives out, police narrowed their search to Holmes and his brother.<br />
After taking samples from both men, they arrested Holmes for the murder last week.<br />
He remains in police custody on a single murder charge.<br />
The astonishing sequence of events is the latest in a string of arrests to be made by detectives using the genealogy results of suspects&#8217; relatives to crimes.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone wp-image-301289" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Police-composite-of-suspect-in-murder-of-Christine-Franke-2.jpg" alt="Police composite of suspect in murder of Christine Franke 2" width="768" height="683" /><strong>Police issued this composite [above] of the suspect in the Franke murder, made from DNA left at the scene but it did not yield any credible leads </strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">In this case, it began when one of the detectives in charge of the investigation submitted his own test. &#8216;I participated in an online ancestry website where they provided me a match of my relatives, those who had committed to the website also.<br />
&#8216;I thought to myself, &#8220;how can I use this in the Christine Franke case?&#8221;&#8216; detective Michael Fields said.<br />
<img class=" wp-image-301291 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Christine-Franke-2.jpg" alt="Christine Franke 2" width="97" height="172" />A year later, he started working with Parabon Nanolabs. Through their assessment of the DNA found at the scene, they were able put together a composite of the suspect&#8217;s image.<br />
It was released publicly but no matches were ever made.<br />
It was only in May this year, when Holmes&#8217; relatives submitted their samples, that they had a breakthrough.<br />
Christine [photo left], Franke&#8217;s family say they are grateful police never gave up.<br />
At a press conference on Monday, Franke&#8217;s mother said she was thrilled that police never gave up.<br />
&#8216;I am so grateful that these gentlemen and everyone involved never gave up on my daughter&#8217;s case. This is such a happy for us. We are so overwhelmingly grateful for everything they&#8217;ve done.<br />
&#8216;I can&#8217;t say enough nice things about them,&#8217; Tina Franke said.</p>
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Killer exposed by ‘familial DNA’! Benjamin Holmes, 38, is arrested for 2001 cold case murder of Florida student – Christine Franke was shot dead in her apartment after three of his relatives signed up to genealogy website, police matched their samples to DNA found at crime scene
