Barbara Rae-venter is a New Zealand-born American investigative genetic genealogist, biochemist, and retired patent attorney best known for her work helping the FBI and other investigators identify Joseph James DeAngelo as the Golden State Killer.
Her investigative work earned her a place on the Time 100 list of most influential people in 2019, and she was recognized by the journal Nature as one of 10 People Who Mattered in Science in 2018..
Rae-venter is a founder and the president of Firebird Forensics Group, a not-for-profit corporation. at the University of California at San Diego and later a law degree at the University of Texas at Austin Law School.
She earned a Ph.
D.
Barbara Rae-venter is a New Zealand-born American investigative genetic genealogist, biochemist, and retired patent attorney best known for her work helping the FBI and other investigators identify Joseph James DeAngelo as the Golden State Killer
