TDTF in the Media

We have created this page for links to media in which the Trans Doe Task Force or a case we have worked on has been mentioned. If you know of any other articles which should be in this list, please let us know! If you are a journalist interested in interviewing us, please reach out.

Media links

• Viktor Veltstra provides closure by identifying queer & trans violent crime victims 18 Sep 2023
• Queering Death – Why The Death Care Industry Needs Queer Grassroots Collectives 13 Jun 2023
• DNA drive, missing persons event to help families search for loved ones 19 May 2023
• TalkDeath: Necropolitics and the Erasure of Trans and Non-Binary Bodies in Death 13 Jul 2022
• The Fall Line Podcast: Julie Doe — Unidentified 13 Jul 2022
• Oxygen: Meet The Trans-Led Group Helping To Find Unidentified Missing Non-Binary And Trans People 30 Jun 2022
• WTHR: Meet the trans-led task force who helped solve a rural Indiana mystery 30 Jun 2022
• The Race: Meet the group that works to crack transgender cold cases 10 Jun 2022
• Harris County medical examiner teams with nonprofit to identify transgender, nonbinary crime victims 12 May 2022
• Madison Magazine: The skeleton in the chimney 10 May 2022
• Oxygen: Chicago Transgender Woman Found Slain In Trash, Family Demands Answers 25 Mar 2022
• People: Missing Trans Woman Found Fatally Beaten in Chicago Garbage Bin: ‘There Is Not Enough Community Response’ 24 Mar 2022
• Medium: Julie Doe: The Story of a Transgender Doe 11 Mar 2022
• ChromasomaX: Encuentran a una mujer trans secuestrada gracias a un mensaje de voz 10 Mar 2022
• HRC: Honoring Za’niyah Williams, A “Beautiful Butterfly” Who “Ripped the Runway” 27 Jan 2022
• WTHR: Victim of 1982 serial killing found in Jasper Co. identified as 19-year-old Peru man 1 Dec 2021
• Xtra Magazine: Cases of missing trans people are rarely solved. A married pair of forensic genealogists is hoping to change that 21 Sep 2021
• Idaho State Journal: ISU researcher helps bring law enforcement closer to solving decades-old mystery 2 Aug 2021
• Remembering Our Dead: Live Oak Doe 28 Feb 2021
• Vice: Meet the Genetic Sleuths Solving Decades-Old Trans Murders 25 Jan 2021
• Greenfield Recorder: Cracking cold cases: Athol couple uses genetic genealogy to ID bodies, find killers 18 Jan 2021
• Wired UK: DNA detectives are using new tools to solve decades-old cold cases 8 Dec 2020
• The Atlantic: Sleuths Are Haunted by the Cold Case of Julie Doe 23 Dec 2019
• The Fall Line Podcast: Julie Doe 17 Apr 2010

Previous media highlights:

13 May 2022: We would like to extend congratulations (and thanks again!) to Erica Lenti whose article about the Trans Doe Task Force for Xtra Magazine has been nominated in the Digital Publishing Awards Best Feature Article category!