At 3:17 A.M., Police Told Me My Husband Was Dead—But He Was Sleeping Beside Me

“Get me out of this room.”

PART 4 — THE FIRST DNA PROBLEM

I expected DNA to solve everything in one afternoon.

It did not.

Identical twins complicate ordinary genetic identification.

Standard DNA testing can confirm close genetic identity.

It may not distinguish which twin is which.

Detective Vance explained this carefully.

“So how do you tell them apart?”

“Medical history.”