It resulted in a large-scale operation involving subject matter experts from the RAF and the Army, as well as forensic archaeologists who were able to identify the remains as male and more than half-a-century old.
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The investigation was reopened after Harrison was identified as the perpetrator due to DNA evidence obtained through a Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence (SAFE) Kit.
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At the time of the murder, an extensive investigation was conducted by Oceanside homicide detectives and a suspect was identified, but charges could not be filed due to a lack of physical evidence.
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The paper incorporates results from DNA testing of more than 4,000 African elephant tusks from 49 different ivory seizures made in 12 African nations over a 17-year period.
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SERI laboratory had developed a DNA profile from the evidence that had been submitted. A DNA match came back to that of Bokin.
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In August 1980, a bulldozer operator working at the West Side Landfill in Larksville, PA came across what he believed to be a doll. After closer inspection he realized it was a newborn boy.
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Initially, the remains were identified as belonging to a female but later analysis revealed the remains belong to an older male.
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Investigators in Iowa used genealogical data to link the 1982 fatal stabbing of a woman to an Illinois trucker who was found shot to death in a shallow grave months later.
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Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute have taken a major step toward mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans: a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of us.
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The two sides agreed the Baltimore City Police Lab should retest certain items collected as evidence in the 1999 killing of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee using DNA technology that was not available for Syed’s trials.
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