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Cloyd Steiger
Retired Seattle Police homicide detective (36 years, 22 in homicide), former chief criminal investigator for Washington State AG's HITS unit, and author of "Homicide: The View from Inside the Yellow Tape."
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Jun 24, 2026
NEW! Nancy Guthrie Ransom Letter Alleges Gruesome Details & Mexico Volunteers Take STS Inside Search
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Joel WaldmanHOST
So even if there is some sort of DNA – wrong acronym – but if there is some sort of DNA – hit, would we even know about that, Cloyd?
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26:58Cloyd SteigerGUEST
And if there is foreign DNA found at the scene and they found it and identified it, you know, like you said, then, you know, if it's not in CODIS, the combined DNA index system, then you have to do genealogy.
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27:12Cloyd SteigerGUEST
And that It can take months because you're basically tracking birth and death records and finding relatives, presuming that somebody close enough in family has done a 23andMe or one of those home DNA tests.
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NEW! Nancy Guthrie Ransom Letter Alleges Gruesome Details & Mexico Volunteers Take STS Inside Search
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Joel WaldmanHOST
So even if there is some sort of F- uh, DNA, th- wrong acronym, but if there is some sort of DNA hit, would we even know about that, Cloyd?
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24:16Cloyd SteigerGUEST
No, we wouldn't, and we shouldn't, you know, [laughs] until that's, until you're ready to make an arrest.
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24:26Cloyd SteigerGUEST
And if there is- Foreign DNA found at the scene, and they found it and identified it.
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24:30Cloyd SteigerGUEST
You know, like, l- like you said, th- then, you know, if it's not in CODIS, the Combined DNA, uh, Index System, then you have to do genealogy, and that can take months, 'cause you're basically tracking birth and death records and finding relatives, presuming that somebody close enough in the family has done a 23andMe or one of those home DNA tests, so it's even ... to even get someone to start with, you have to have a starting point.
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Joel WaldmanHOST
I'm not allowing anyone to search on the American side." But here you have these Mexicans on the Mexican side of the border off of a tip, and she never said it, but, um, the tip seemed to be credible enough that they are continuing to search and said that, that, "Look, we're gonna just keep going out there." What do you make of this anonymous tip? Do you think there was something with it that made it, uh, you know, more, um, I don't know, pertinent or, or for these people to go out and search the way they, they have been searching?
100 Days Missing: Where is Nancy Guthrie? And Who Knows the Truth? Investigators Weigh In on Case
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12:19Cloyd SteigerGUEST
Well, that's, that's the worst thing for any of the victim families of crime.
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12:23Cloyd SteigerGUEST
It's bad enough that your loved one's been murdered and you have the body and not know who did it, but to not even know what happened is the absolute worst thing.
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