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jlenko t1_iy41f5h wrote

Unfortunately the story doesn’t go into detail on who the “two boys and a girl” are, so I can only assume that they are Melissa/Melanie’s children. If one of them took a DNA test, it would show DNA matches. The story just doesn’t say where that information came from.

Without testing, you would have no idea. So there must have been someone down that family line that was tested.

Edit: you could always hop over to Twitter and ask the reporter for clarification

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Mastodon996 t1_iy42uqw wrote

The Guardian article has more information: "Sharon Highsmith said her family connected with a clinical laboratory scientist and amateur genealogist named Lisa Jo Schiele to help them with interpreting the key DNA results and mining publicly available records to locate Melissa."

FWIW, local TV news web articles are a terrible source. If you have any interest at all in the thing being covered, Google a few keywords and find a better article.

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