Michigan man uploads his DNA profile, helps find his missing aunt miles away in Ohio

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Can you help solve a cold case?
A young man with a missing aunt did just that when he uploaded his DNA profile to a public ancestry database decades later.
19 Investigates continues to shed a light on John and Jane Doe cases in our area.
This relative hopes his story will inspire other families who are trying to find their missing loved ones.

Kenny Lowe was born years after his 18-year-old aunt went missing.
But he still felt the hole her disappearance left in their family’s life.
“My dad had settled into sort of you know just the complacency where, ‘there’s nothing we can do and she’s gone,’” he said.
The details of her life hit Kenny hard.