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Cece Moore: We got really lucky that there was only one male in this family, because the genetic genealogy was pointing at one person and only one person, and that was William Earl Talbott, II. Narrator: At the time of the murders, Talbott lived a few miles from the bridge where Jay Cook’s body was found. Now, he is 55, a truck driver. The police follow him. They want his DNA to see if it matches the DNA from the crime scene. One day they get lucky. A drinking cup falls out of his truck. Jim Scharf brings the cup to the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab for S.T.R. testing. Lab supervisor Lisa Collins asks him to wait. Soon, she returns. === Narrator: On May 17, 2018, William Earl Talbott, II is arrested on a charge of first degree murder for a 31-year-old crime. He’s a man who was identified, not because he took a DNA test, but because a relative did. Someone he’d never even met.