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DNA Links Man to 1992 Killings of Indiana Woman, Girl, 4
February 19, 2021
A Tennessee man charged in the July 1992 killings of an Indiana woman and her 4-year-old daughter was linked to the deaths by a new analysis of DNA collected from the mother’s body, court records show.
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Man Gets 45 Years in Prison for Assault Case Solved with Genealogy
February 19, 2021
A man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in a 2012 Butte County case that was solved using forensic genealogy.
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Lansing, Michigan Police Looking to Form Cold Case Unit
February 08, 2021
Plans to partner with the Detroit Crime Commission could help police in Lansing solve decades-old murder cases.
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Bid to Toss DNA Evidence in Phoenix Canal Killings Rejected
February 05, 2021
A judge has rejected a bid to throw out DNA evidence against a man charged with sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in separate attacks in the early 1990s while they were riding bikes near a canal system that winds through metro Phoenix.
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Oregon 1st State to Decriminalize Possession of Drugs
February 05, 2021
Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other drugs as a ballot measure that decriminalized them took effect on Monday.
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Arrest Made in 2004 Cold Case Killing of 16-year-old
February 03, 2021
Police in Waterbury, Connecticut said last week they arrested and charged a local man in the killing of a teenager nearly 17 years ago.
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Murder Charges Expected in Fatal Attack of Famed PI Jack Palladino
February 03, 2021
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said he plans to file murder charges against two men arrested last week for the attempted robbery and fatal attack on famed private investigator Jack Palladino.
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DDP Helps ID Victim of Green River Killer
January 27, 2021
Wendy Stephens was 14 and had run away from her home in Denver before Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, strangled her in 1983, the King County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
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U.S. Carries Out First Execution of Female Inmate Since 1953
January 13, 2021
A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.
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South Carolina: 2 Bodies Found in Separate Homes, One Burns Down 2 Days Later
January 06, 2021
Over the first weekend of the new year, the body of a baby was found inside the wall of a house being remodeling in South Carolina. That same day, a body was found in the freezer of an abandoned house.
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Appeals Court Vacates Order Delaying Woman’s Execution
January 06, 2021
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
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Justice Dept. Charges Bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am Explosion
December 23, 2020
The Justice Department announced new charges Monday against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
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Forensic Pathologists: Over 15% of Child Deaths in South Africa are Homicides
December 23, 2020
According to official figures, around 1,000 children are murdered every year in South Africa, nearly three a day. But that statistic, horrific as it is, may be an undercount.
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$100,000 Federal Grant to Aid University Forensics Training
December 14, 2020
A $100,000 federal grant will assist a law enforcement education program at Jacksonville State University.
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UK Doctor Can’t Exclude Sex Assault of Dead Teen in Malaysia
November 30, 2020
A British pathologist said Monday there was no positive evidence that a French-Irish teenager found dead last year near a Malaysian jungle resort was sexually assaulted, but he couldn’t fully rule it out due to severe body decomposition.
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Report: Inmates Killed in Colombia Riot Shot Intentionally
November 25, 2020
New evidence indicates most of the 24 inmates killed during a prison riot in Colombia’s capital earlier this year over fears that crowded, unhygienic conditions would fuel a virus outbreak were shot to death intentionally.
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Government Executes Man Convicted of Killing Texas Teen
November 23, 2020
Hall was put to death for abducting and killing the teenager, Lisa Rene. His was the eighth federal execution this year since the Trump administration revived a process that had been used just three times in the past 56 years.
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Mexico Uncovers 10 More Bodies from Mass Grave in Sonora
November 23, 2020
Forensic scientists in the Mexican state of Sonora have recovered 10 more bodies from mass graves near a beach town, raising the total number of bodies and skeletons found in the area since October to 52.
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DNA Links North Carolina Man to 1992 Rape, Attempted Murder
November 20, 2020
Authorities in North Carolina say that a man has been arrested on charges of attempted murder and rape nearly 30 years after police say the crimes were committed.
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Idaho Body Found in 1984 to Undergo DNA Analysis
November 20, 2020
Authorities in Idaho have accepted an unresolved case from 1984 as part of a genetic genealogy study that could help police identify a body found 36 years ago.
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