so I am just going to very quickly briefly go through sort of a timeline of the case when it started uh or from it's when it started in May of 2013 to where we are how we got to where we are today and then uh and then I'll open it up for for any questions um at that point um as mentioned in the press release uh part of this investigation during this investigation we were able to find out that baby precious was given a name before she passed her name was Amara so I will be referring to her as Amara during as I speak just so for any confusion's sake um so the morning of May 28 2013 uh workers at a recycling plant or recycling center I should say in North Portland found the deceased baby Amara on the on one of the conveyor belts going through their daily sorting of recycling materials and that sort of started started the ball rolling that initially was very significant investigation involving detective Christina Coffey and Eric camerer were the leads initially and they put in a ton of work trying to track down things like the trucks that had come and dumped a dumped material their Roots any video from where the pickups were done there was a as you know an immense amount of public outcry I don't know public outcry public request for public assistance um and things like that and ultimately that didn't produce any actionable leads at that time also um DNA was sent from the baby Amara and uh placenta that was found also was sent to OSP crime lab to try and see if I could get any matches within the various databases and that didn't show up anything either in May or actually so I picked up this case in May of 2019 a couple months prior to that my partner and I stood up here talking about closing the analavka case the first use of forensic investigative genetic genealogy for the police Bureau and that was the beginning of 2019 and immediately we started looking for other cases that we could uh that might be available for this and this was one of two that we sent off in Spring of of 2019. so we sent off blood samples from the me's office the State medical examiner's office to Bodhi Technologies it's a private forensic lab in Virginia and uh we've the beer has partnered with them for a number of things but they are our primary partner now with when it comes to forensic investigative genetic genealogy work so we sent off samples in May of 2019 they did their initial processing of that and uploading it into the consumer databases and we're not able to get any close relative matches that would generate anything so the case quarter went back on the shelf for a little bit in December of 2020 um Bodhi called me up and said there had been new submissions to the databases that now they were able to find a pretty close uh familial match unfortunately that match was uploaded anonymously so we had no idea who this person was we did have an email address however and through that we were able to track this person down and then we had another roadblock this person was adopted so we had no actual biological family to work with with them so the next um six or eight months were spent um going through the courts to get access to adoption records in Utah and Idaho and that ultimately in July of 2021 that got us to identifying a local family that was involved in this and between July of 21 to two weeks ago when this case was presented to the grand jury we've really been working on what happened to Amara and as you know a man named al-nath Omar Oliver has been indicted for a number of charges he goes by Omar so if I'd if I mentioned him as Omar the suspect whoever I'm referring to and ultimately what we found was Omar 10 years ago when he was in his 40s had a relationship with a then 15 year old who for obvious reasons we will not be identifying that relationship produced a child Amara and um the circumstances surrounding her birth that night and Omar's actions and then her death or what resulted in the um uh um charges for uh for Omar that again we're not going to get in too many of those details specifically but and uh that uh given that I'll open up to any questions at the time it was as you said there was a lot of public Enterprise I recall yes and also help for uh you know you guys asked for help and and um I guess would you characterize this case as a another example of somebody you know it's a quote case for a while but it it eventually it's just a matter of getting the information and as technology upgrades um kind of make the progress I mean it seems like to me it seems wow what it's kind of a stretch that you've got to this far is it is it just Place work how do you describe that well how we got here well I think you know when the Cold Case unit initially was created in 2004 the whole purpose behind it was because we had got to a point where forensic science had now got to a point where we could leverage that on older cases that weren't available the science wasn't available at the time um with newer techniques the forensic investigative investigative genetic genealogy the whole genome sequencing and all these things that are now coming online we're in a little bit and maybe not to that extent extent but a little bit of the same same window where we can now look back at all those cold cases that we still have that we basically tried for the last almost 20 years and now we kind of have a window where we have a whole new batch of cases that we can work this being one of them so that's and yes the the it is it's exactly like that where we just keep tabs on them and we keep tabs on the technology and as soon as we come across somewhere where we think those things will marry um we jump on it also I I feel like for folks out there families especially wanting us some sort of explanation and also perpetrators must be feeling like uh I am not nobody's getting away with that anymore right well I guess it's part of our job to keep them uncomfortable so that's the hope are you able to say if the mother of this child is still alive mother is still alive she's very aware of this uh she testified at Grand Jury she knows what's going on um but uh yes and she is the relationship between Omar and her is sort of the uh the Nexus for that rape three charge that you saw in the um sonatos only is she juvenile but she's also a juvenile sex assault victim so um as well be providing any more details about her detective out of this case impacts you um well this case it's been a long time coming uh working cold cases you get used to work in cases for long periods of time but this was four years that I worked on this and it's it's been a long time coming um and um there are a lot of details about this case that we can't release that are very very unique um but for me personally anytime we get to close a cold case I feel very good about it it's a sort of a passion of mine cold cases but uh with uh such a um particular victim in this case such vulnerability it was very very fulfilling to to close this one when it comes to the suspect I ideologically I have not read the press release and yes yes so the indictment the grand jury voted indictment came out on Monday and he was arrested either late this afternoon or early this or late this morning early this afternoon here in Portland were other agencies involved in helping you with this it sounds like you had other states uh where you were working on things yeah that's actually something I didn't want to mention so when part of the genealogy investigation and accessing those all the records I did get a lot of support from Boise Police Department and for the arrest the arrest was carried out by our U.S Marshals task force well I got it how many years did you spend work in this case uh I picked it up in May of 20 spring of 2019 so four hey is this the longest I just have a you know where you use genetic uh Eddy stuff you know it is but at the same time there was a lot between covid and all the the rioting and disruptions going on a lot of things that sort of pulled us in a lot of different directions so this case probably would have been a shorter uh sort of time frame solve if we um you know if we didn't have those other resource drains what uh what what drives you in this kind of work because you mentioned you ran into a couple roadblocks and had to keep you know things come up and then you got to put it back down as it is there a particular thing that drives you in a case like this um I think I mean ultimately just getting some sort of we don't in Cold Case use the term closure because closure is is it sort of implies an end and for victims of these crimes it's not really an end but a resolution to sort of that ongoing thought of what's out there what's happened to my child what so coming up that resolution is really the driving force to that point detective you guys don't do this job to Pat yourselves on the back but this took a dog it approached didn't it I mean this this clearly didn't happen you know this did not happen overnight clearly it was years and years of work dead ends keep going that sort of thing uh yes um but I think there's a tremendous value in doing it and that's I mean that's why we do it right is that resolution um for those for families and this particular family ultimately this sort of tour is one of the things I can tell you is the mother of the child is not aware that her child was deceased she has believed from day one that Omar had taken the child to a hospital and so this this did not provide that sense of resolution that we normally seek this really sort of devastated this family unfortunately but I think getting resolution whether it's good or bad I think is absolute Noble goal that we we try for and then just explain what happens from here on out I mean clear to most people but maybe not to everyone like he's arrested now what happens next yeah so he was arrested he's in custody um as far as whether he will stay in custody um depends a lot on things like his criminal history and um and uh previous violence in the Court's decision and I don't know what that's how that's going to shake out um I can tell you that I don't believe um he does not have a significant violent uh conviction record so but I don't know whether he was going to be released pending trial or not uh the he will have an opportunity to have a trial as everyone does whether he chooses to do so or make some agreement through his attorney with the DA's office will be up to up to those uh folks making those decisions but yeah he's indicted he's charged and then now it's really up to the prosecutor's office and the courts to figure out from here is this a harder case because of it was a like a baby a child those cases tend to be harder for you guys uh that is uh this is the only child homicide I've ever worked and I don't I've never worked child sex abuse cases or anything like that um personally for that very reason I know lots of people feel the same way other people uh feel like the exact opposite like these are that we have to work these cases um I think you're going to get a very very individualized answer for that for me personally I actually didn't find this case any more difficult um I certainly wouldn't want to do it regularly though anything else because let me make sure Amy uh let me have you say and spell your name your title yeah sure uh my name is detective Brendan McGuire it's b-r-e-n-d-a-n-m-c-g-u-i-r-e hey Amy did you have any questions um yes I do thank you detective my name is Amy green I'm a reporter with Dora Downey and apologize I couldn't make it there in person um can you describe what kind of testing LED you to this this adopted relative was it like 23andMe was it one of those home test kits uh well yes and no it's a little so um criminal the the sort of Criminal Justice and law enforcement when we do uh forensic genetic genealogy testing we do not have access to 23andMe or ancestry or um most of those uh direct consumer tests but we do have access to is um two companies GED match and family tree DNA and what those are are if you as a consumer take a 23 and me or or ancestry test and then for whatever reason you take the extra step of uploading your results into one of these other databases so we don't have access to 23andMe but we do have access to people who have intentionally uploaded their 23andMe results to these other databases it's much smaller smaller databases and under very specific circumstances involving violent crimes we can upload crime scene samples or unidentified subject samples into these databases to look for a family sort of matches if you will not direct matches but we'll find perhaps a cousin or Uncle Etc and then we can start building family trees and look at who our our unidentified subject whether it's a unidentified remains case or whether it's a suspect crime scene sample who that may be so this person this relative did a home kit test for DNA and then at some point in 2020 uploaded their results onto an online registry yes can you say if the DNA is linked to the dad or the mom uh mom I'm sorry say that again mom yes the connection through the database was through the maternal line okay and the father's DNA was not on file like on the in the criminal database in Oregon because he hadn't been convicted of a felony in Oregon is that correct that's how you wouldn't have been able to tell from testing the tissue of the baby initially uh that is correct however yep no that's that's absolutely correct yes [Music] yes the details of what happened um after the baby's birth he did uh the vast majority of what we know about what happened to Amara came from um Omar and the mother um I know you can't get too much into the details but the indictment says alleges criminal mistreatment for allegedly withholding adequate food physical left care and medical attention can you describe it all more what that means like there was no like zero care given to this baby you know milk no fluids how about like heat keeping it warm yeah so um what I can tell you is from the moment that um the defendant was aware of the pregnancy he prevented both the mother from going to uh seek any Medical Care Medical Care prenatal or otherwise including after in the immediate like she gave birth on his floor and he prevented her from going to seek any medical attention he then took the child from that that from his apartment and uh in the course of walking to a hospital the baby passed and when he found the baby unresponsive he refused to take that baby to the hospital um thank you very much you're welcome