TikToker's DNA Test Unveils Grandma's Dark Secret: A 25-Year-Old Murder Case Solved

Posted • November 26, 2024: A TikToker named Jenna Rose recently put out a video in which she tells a bizarre story about how an Ancestry DNA test uncovered a dark family secret and led to the reopening of a 25-year-old cold murder case. In the video, Rose gave a gripping account of how her DNA match helped law enforcement identify her own grandmother as the suspect in a notorious Michigan case known as the “Baby Garnet” investigation. […] The authorities requested Rose’s permission to obtain DNA samples from Rose and her mother. The results were alarming. “We ended up finding out that it’s not a distant relative to my mom, but a direct relative. And the only other people that it could have been was my mom’s mother,” Rose recounted. […] The Michigan Attorney General’s Office issued a press release in May 2024 announcing the arrest and indictment of Nancy Gerwatowski, who is now 60 years old.

She will be standing trial for the Baby Garnet case and is being charged with Open Murder, Involuntary Manslaughter, and Concealing the Death of an Individual. The first charge carries a possible life sentence. The remains of the infant were discovered in 1997 at the Garnet Lake Campground in Hudson Township. The initial investigation did not yield any leads. But in 2017, a Michigan State Police Detective initiated familial genetic genealogical tracing. A lab received the skeletal remains of the victim in 2020 and returned a DNA profile in 2022. This is what led the authorities to Rose and eventually to her grandmother, who was living in Wyoming. (…)

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