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Arrest Made In ‘Georgetown Cuddler’ Case Years After Series Of Rapes Near Campuses

ThroughLine Consultants is honored to be part of the team that solved this case using Forensic Genetic Genealogy (FGG). And, as was said at the press conference, this predator’s “intent was not to ‘cuddle’ … his intent was to rape.”

Investigators said that DNA collected in the victims’ sexual assault forensic exams was analyzed in the FBI’s national database of DNA profiles and was determined to belong to the same man. Because he didn’t have a criminal history, however, they couldn’t identify him.

Mercado was eventually identified using genetic genealogy techniques, among other tools, investigators said.