Colleen Fitzpatrick

Forensic Genealogy Consultant @Identifinders International, Llc

Orange Co., CA, US

Intern\'l specialist in human ID. Worldwide forensic research -50 countries. Multi-lingual. Key member of teams on hist IDs & exposing intern\'l literary frauds. Cold case expert.HIST PROJSEfforts to ID Somerton Man in Australia; w Prof Derek Abbott, U Adelaide Holocaust Survivor DNA Proj to ID Child Survivors using DNA & Abraham Lincoln DNA Proj w/ Zach Zpigelman, MD, Harvard U & Anne Stone, PhD, U AZ TempeID of Unknown Child on Titanic, US AFDIL, Rockville, MD Amelia Earhart Proj -Location of DNA ref for Fred Noonan, Earhart\'s navigator.The Mascot, Melbourne, Aus. Est\'d Jewish identity of Holocaust Survivor Alex Kurzem, subj of int\'l best-seller INTERN\'L FRAUDSHerman Rosenblat Holocaust Fraud. Defeated Rosenblat\'s soon-to-be bestselling Holocaust tale Misha Defonseca Holocaust Fraud; Exposed Defonseca\'s int\'l bestselling Child Survivor autobio as fraud GOVT & MILUS Army Cas & Mort Affairs, Fort Knox; Dir\'d team of Forensic Genealogists on location of DNA refs for Korean War MIAs & KIAsHand in Snow Proj- AFDIL, Rockville, MD. Located DNA ref to ID frozen arm & hand discov\'d in Alaskan glacier LAW ENFORC\'T• Worked >400 cold cases using FGG• Leading expert in processing degraded, low level, & contam\'d DNA samples for genetic genealogy. • Pioneer in dev\'t of genetic genealogy methods for separating mixtures. • Finalist in Gordon Thomas Honeywell Cold Case Hit of Year intern\'l competition: Sarah Yarborough (1991) Federal Way, WA. 1st cold case where FGG was applied (2011). Phoenix Canal Murders 19•••••31st cold case solved using FGG Solved first two cases using FGG autosomal SNP testing – Joseph Newton Chandler identity fraud & ID of Buckskin Girl, wks bef Golden State Killer ID\'d

Duke University

PhD, Nuclear Physics

Rice University

BA, Physics

Duke University

PhD, MS, Nuclear Physics

Duke University

MS, Physics