Stephen Kramer

FBI Attorney

Mr. Kramer has 25 years of experience in law enforcement, as an FBI attorney, as a federal prosecutor and as a deputy district attorney.  He began his career with law enforcement in law school in 1993 after he published a law review article on the use of DNA evidence and was contacted and consulted by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.  He has prosecuted homicide cases, corporate fraud cases and national security cases.  At the FBI he was responsible for legal matters in many of the FBI's largest and most sensitive criminal and national security investigations.  Due to his interest in DNA related investigations, in 2013, Mr. Kramer became involved in the FBI's investigation of the Golden State Killer, who was one of the most prolific, uncaught serial killers in U.S. history responsible for 13 murders, 50 sexual assaults and hundreds of burglaries.  In 2018, Mr. Kramer worked with Family Tree DNA, a commercial genetic genealogy company, to upload the Golden State Killer's DNA into its database.  Mr. Kramer led a team of investigators on a forensic genetic genealogy investigation which resulted in the arrest of Joseph James Deangelo in April 2018 as the alleged Golden State Killer.  Following the arrest of Deangelo, Mr. Kramer and Special Agent Stephen Busch created and led the FBI’s Forensic Genetic Genealogy team, which solved dozens of the most difficult and violent crimes both in the United States and internationally.  In 2021, Mr. Kramer and Mr. Busch left the FBI and founded Indago Solutions, LLC, an AI-based software service that automates genetic genealogy to identify suspects.  Mr. Kramer continues to work regularly with the United States Department of Justice and with state prosecutors on policy issues and best practices for law enforcement’s use of genetic genealogy.