I had no idea I’d solved 27-year-old cold case after taking at-home DNA test – my gran was arrested over baby’s murder

A NOTORIOUS 27-year-old execution enigma has been solved aft an Ancestry DNA trial resulted successful an arrest.

TikToker Jenna Rose Gerwatowski, 23, revealed that a DNA trial led to her grandmother's apprehension successful an unfastened acold case.

In a video that has present amassed much than 15 cardinal views, Jenna revealed however she enactment her grandma down bars with a basal Ancestry DNA kit.

In the 7 infinitesimal video, Jenna explained the events that led to the arrest.

She said: "So 2 years agone I watched my champion person get an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas and thought it was dope.

"I was similar I request 1 of those. I wanna spot each the chill s**t that she's seeing close now. So I bought one."

Explaining the process, she said: "You swab your rima and they springiness you your ancestry results. It's really truly chill and I had a blast doing it."

Jenna revealed that a twelvemonth aft she received her results, she was contacted by the cops successful Michigan.

She said: "I'm astatine enactment and I get a telephone call.

"It's a detective from the Michigan State Police retired of Saint Hicks."

She said the telephone telephone "freaked her out" and thought she was either going to spell to jailhouse oregon that idiosyncratic had died.

It is unclear however the cops were capable to way her DNA down.

Jenna said the detective had reopened a acold lawsuit and that her DNA was a "direct lucifer to the unfortunate of this case."

The 23-year-old revealed that the cops called her aft her DNA matched that of a 1997 acold lawsuit dubbed "Baby Garnet".

The infamous lawsuit progressive the decease of a "term oregon adjacent term" newborn recovered successful an outhouse astatine Garnet Lake Campground successful Naubinway, Michigan.

In the clip, Jenna explained that aft that telephone telephone she was encouraged to telephone a woman from Chicago.

She said: "He said that she runs a worldwide database and helium wants maine to speech to her truthful she tin upload my DNA into this worldwide database.

"He told maine that helium would springiness her my fig and she would telephone maine aft I got disconnected work."

However, the telephone telephone near Jenna suspicious it was a scam aft she was asked for her password and she promptly hung up the phone.

A week later, Jenna's ma and relative reached retired and explained that the cops had visited the cousin's location and it was not a scam.

She past gave support for her DNA to beryllium tally successful the database, which revealed she was a distant comparative to the deceased babe from 27 years ago.

Jenna's mum besides undertook a DNA trial which revealed a nonstop nexus to the victim.

In the video, Jenna explained that pursuing the caller portion of the puzzle, the cops began investigating Jenna's grandmother, Nancy Gerwatowski.

She said: "We were caput blown, caput you.

"I've ne'er met this pistillate before.

"She is virtually the idiosyncratic that they've been looking for 25 years.

"And it's each due to the fact that of an Ancestry DNA kit.

"Everything unfolded from there."

Jenna added that she's not allowed to speech astir thing that happened since the DNA discovery.

In a travel up video, Jenna answered however the cops were capable to get her DNA.

She said: " A batch of radical arguing successful the comments astir whether oregon not constabulary tin really usage Ancestry DNA for worldly similar this.

"They perfectly can, and they did."

According to Ancestry's usher for instrumentality enforcement, contents of communications and immoderate information relating to the DNA of an Ancestry idiosyncratic volition beryllium released lone pursuant to a valid hunt warrant from a authorities bureau with due jurisdiction.

"If we person a valid petition nether U.S. instrumentality to sphere records that represent perchance applicable grounds successful ineligible proceedings, we volition preserve, but not disclose, a impermanent snapshot of the applicable relationship records for 90 days pending work of valid ineligible process arsenic described above."

Following the DNA trial results, Nancy Ann Gerwatowski, 60, was arrested successful 2022 connected charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter, and concealing a body, according to Click connected Detroit.

Authorities judge she gave commencement astatine home, wherever the kid died from asphyxiation.

She past allegedly hid the newborn’s assemblage successful an outhouse astatine the Garnet Lake campground successful Hudson.

Investigators assertion Gerwatowski confirmed to them that she is the child’s mother.

According to tribunal records, a proceeding is scheduled to beryllium held connected December 12, 2024.

The Sun has reached retired to Ancestry DNA and Michigan State Police for comment.