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8-Apr-2026
Pennsylvania v. Ransom-Nelson
“The gun match is 651 thousand times more probable than coincidence.” – TrueAllele
Days before Christmas 2024 in Montgomery County Pennsylvania, an off-duty police detective was shopping with his family at Kohl’s when two men robbed the store at gunpoint. The detective thwarted the robbery. The robbers fled; one dropped his gun. It was analyzed for DNA.
To the county’s database, the gun DNA was just another “unsearchable mixture” that gave no leads. But the county was also using Cybergenetics’ more informative TrueAllele Investigative Database (ID). On the same DNA data, our TrueAllele ID process can unmix the mixtures, preserve all DNA information, and make connections.
The TrueAllele database connected the gun and magazine to suspect Zaire Ransom-Nelson. On April 8, 2026, Cybergenetics analyst Kari Danser testified about the TrueAllele findings. The jury found Ransom-Nelson guilty of armed robbery. It was TrueAllele ID’s first time in court.
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