Verkkothe fbi reports that between 1980 and 2019, there were over 700 homicides and over 100 missing person cases in kansas city that have yet to be solved. Verkkosince then, forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or figg, has been instrumental in cracking hundreds of cold cases and ongoing investigations. Verkkothe easey street murders. It was january 1977 when high school friends ms bartlett and ms armstrong were found stabbed to death in their home on easey street in. Verkkofor almost two decades, investigative journalist jerry mitchell doggedly pursued the klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights.