St. Joseph County Police, the Coroner’s Office, and other agencies will exhume the remains of this man—known only as the “Howard Johnson John Doe”—from Tutt Cemetery in an attempt to give him his name back.
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Age estimation in adult individual remains is challenging, often with errors of plus or minus ten years.
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In the 1950s, critical evidence, including the victim’s remains, went missing from law enforcement custody, with no documentation of their disposition. This halted further progress in the case.
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The only physical evidence located at the scene of a quadruple assault and homicide of teenagers has been linked to known serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers who, years later, died by suicide during a police standoff—with the same gun he used to murder 13-year-old Amy Ayers on that night in 1991.
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What began with just 20 grantees in 2015 has grown into the largest cold case program in the country (arguably, the world), with over 100 grantees spanning 45 states.
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Authorities arrested a 43-year-old Pueblo man in connection with the 2022 death of a man whose remains were found in a shallow grave in eastern Pueblo County.
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On October 14, 2025, Missouri is set to execute Lance Shockley by lethal injection. The circumstantial evidence is compelling, but comprehensive DNA testing wasn’t done—and the courts have decided that it never will be.
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Continued follow up on a missing persons investigation led to a piece of closure for the family of 20-year-old TSU student and mother, Alice Mae Sullivan, 39 years after she went missing.
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Kenneth J. Breslauer’s research has touched different aspects of society from improving the development of medicine to treat disease to making it easier to solve criminal cold cases.
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After nearly three decades of investigation, law enforcement officials have identified the now-deceased suspect who they believe raped several elderly women in Bastrop Co. between 1997 and 2005.
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