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Edward Fetterolf, Margaret’s brother, said in an interview that police told him last month that they had identified his sister’s body with the help of DNA a relative uploaded to Ancestry.com. He was stunned.
“I asked the detective, ‘How did you get from an unsolved case to my phone number?’ ” Fetterolf said. “And he said it was all through genetics and Ancestry.com.”
Ancestry.com prohibits the use of their database by law enforcement for such purposes. It was not clear how police obtained the information, but a representative with Bode Technology said it is not unheard of for people to transfer their results to other databases that are accessible to police.
Fetterolf was 12 when his sister went missing for the final time.
“She was constantly running away,” Fetterolf said. “She was rebellious. She’d break the rules, get in trouble, run away.”
The family always held out hope that she would turn up — when she turned 18, when she turned 21, maybe on a holiday.
But she never did.
“After a while, you just assume the worst,” said Fetterolf, who is 57 and still lives in Alexandria.
Until police contacted him, Fetterolf had never heard of the Woodlawn Jane Doe. But now, he says he’ll do anything he can to help the police. He was able to recall some names of her old friends and boyfriends, which he gave to detectives.

The murder of HAPAfoid Margaret Fetterolf could have been prevented if she (and others who fell in a similar trap) were educated on self-hatred.
HAPAfoid (WMAF) who was sadly murdered (by I'm assuming a white lad) as a result of being a habitual runaway (I'm assuming trying to fit in with whites/going after white lads) based on her living brother's account. This could have been prevented if she was educated on self-hatred within the...