Now a type of technology called DNA, FINA typing could take crime scene analysis to another level.

In DNA profiling, which investigators have used for years, they try to match DNA from a crime scene to records they already have in their system.

With the new technology, genetic information doesn't need to be matched or compared.

It uses the DNA on its own to predict what someone could look like.

The process isn't cheap, and there are privacy concerns about it.

If you're listed in ancestry com, for instance, your relationship to a suspect could be discovered.

But this is changing the way some investigations air carried out.

The technology is called DNA FINA typing, developed by Para Banana labs.

From just a small sample of DNA, they can create a composite image of what someone could look like.

What kind of impact do you think that this technology will have on forensics?

Long term.

Here we have another avenue we could explore if we run into dead ends along the way, we're essentially bringing in entirely new ways to analyze forensic DNA.

Traditional forensic DNA analysis looks just at Can this DNA from a crime scene be matched to a suspect we've already identified or to a database.

But if you don't find a match, it couldn't tell you anything else.

We can generate leads just from the DNA.

That's at that crime scene.

Para bombs started to offer forensic services.

Tow law enforcement in 2015.

Since then, they've assisted in over 40 cases.

A lot of the cases we work, it turns out that they had some information that was leaving them in a particular direction, and our information completely redirects.

You know, you're not looking for a person of that description.

You're looking for person this very different description, and once they pivot and start going down that road, they could find that person.

Our DNA carries a specific instruction set for an individual's physical characteristics, with only a small sample.

Para bond can pull from tens of thousands of genetic variance to predict what a person looks like.

So basically, we're predicting where the face falls on different facial dimensions in what we call face space.

And so this all just comes out of some math that we do on face data.

And as the numbers change, it's showing different possible faces.

So there's a wide variety of possible faces that could be predicted.

That looks like you, that is, This may not be my driver's license image, but if I were pretty close exactly, yeah, the service costs about $3000 but the results could mean authorities spend less time and manpower to solve a case.

The composites do have limitations, though.

For instance, DNA doesn't reveal a person's age.

So to compensate, Para Bon estimates what the person would look like a present day based on how long ago the crime was committed and it is simply a guide, the phenotype alone cannot lead to a conviction.

It's the kind of stuff from a sci fi movie, you know.

I mean, the FINA typing is definitely very sci fi.

Are there any like privacy concerns or what are the moral implications of all of this?

Well, with DNA FINA typing were Onley predicting things that the person makes public every day when they go outside their eye, color their hair color.

We're not looking at any medical information or anything like that, and then with genetic genealogy.

All the research that we dio is public information.

Along with FINA typing genetic genealogy is being used as another tool para bon and law enforcement agencies are using to catch criminals and close cold cases.

By searching a public database of DNA, genealogists can work backwards and a family tree narrowing the search for a suspect going forward.

The number of cold cases will decrease, and also active cases can potentially be solved more quickly.

Cases they even become cold.

Case Exactly.

Cases won't have to go cold.

Mm hmm.