Kasey and Cole both grew up in Upstate New York. Though they’re aunt and niece by DNA, they were raised more like sisters. Kasey was born later in her parents’ lives, and by the time she arrived, her siblings were already grown. Four years later, Cole was born—an only child—so the two grew up side by side, learning life together as "partners in crime" now turned partners in crime fighting.

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For more than 15 years, Kasey has worked within the criminal justice system across multiple areas — from domestic violence and rape crisis advocacy to child protective services to probation. She has worked closely with victims, supervised offenders, and witnessed firsthand the profound ripple effects violent crime leaves behind.

With a master’s degree in psychology, she examines cases through both investigative and behavioral lenses — asking not only how crimes were solved, but why they happened and what allowed them to remain unsolved. Having experienced the difficulty of creating change from within the system, she remains committed to improving it through education, analysis, and advocacy. Kasey is a proud mother of four daughters and is driven daily to help make the world safer — not only for them, but for all families.

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Cole has lived across the country, from Boston to San Francisco, and has spent the past 15 years in technology, leading product teams at major companies and startups. Her background brings a strategic, systems-oriented perspective to the production of Cells. She has volunteered at her local crisis center, helping women and children escape dangerous situations, and serves on the board of a nonprofit aiding mothers and children in crisis. Cole’s connection to this work is deeply personal. After her brother-in-law was taken too soon in a heinous act of violence, her family is experiencing the devastation of an unsolved homicide. As the case has turned cold, the hope for justice now rests largely on advances in DNA technology. She knows first hand what many of the families in these cases have experienced. She is also a proud mother of three boys and is committed to raising them to be men who make the world safer.

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Together, Kasey and Cole combine experience in criminal justice, psychology, technology, and lived experience to examine how forensic investigative genetic genealogy is reshaping modern justice — and why both the science and the human behavior behind these crimes matter.

Cells exists to explore what was missed, what was uncovered, and what it means when truth finally catches up.