LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Siena University hosted their second annual New York's Cold Case Day. People from all over the Capital Region came to learn more about how some cold cases are being solved with advances in DNA technology and how it just might play a critical role in the Lorenz Kraus case.
“Welcome, welcome to our second annual New York State Cold Case Day,” said Annie Rody-Wright the Program Director and Teaching Professor of Criminal Justice Studies.
Nearly 100 people listened as organizer, Siena University instructor and President of DNA Finders, Tobi Kirschmann opened up the event talking about advances in DNA testing. “Since the mid-eighties, we only did DNA one way, and it revealed about 20 markers. Nowadays we have about a million, which if you compare 20 to 1,000,000,