(Sacramento, CA) — There’s a break in a 1980s murder case out of Sacramento. California D-O-J and Othram Labs collaboration worked Rodney Rumsey’s 41-year-old cold case using Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing.

DNA analysis identified distant relatives, and FBI fingerprinting confirmed Rumsey’s identity, turning the case into an active homicide investigation.

Othram Labs is continuing similar work across California.