1.   Before the mystery is solved, Lundy could trek to the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, in search of maternal relatives needed for the DNA match.

2.   Cragin said only the DNA tests, which can match remains to living maternal relatives, were likely to resolve the matter.

3.   For a positive identification, Crane and Snow told the villagers, they would need teeth from the skulls and blood from maternal relatives of each of the men.

4.   He shipped tooth samples from the skulls to King, along with samples of blood he drew from maternal relatives of the dead men.

5.   Her maternal relatives came to work the mines but later became farmers and business owners.

6.   In the Morelia case, King is comparing mitochondrial DNA, a component of DNA that is maternally inherited and is identical among maternal relatives.

7.   Maternal relatives are needed for DNA tracing, which is expensive.

8.   Investigators are trying to match DNA extracted from the blood of maternal relatives with the DNA from the teeth of the exhumed.

9.   Other methods include trying to match DNA extracted from the blood of maternal relatives with the DNA from the teeth of the exhumed.