Due to some similarities between the Jane Doe and Floyd, a close family member of Floyd provided a DNA sample.
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The initial investigation in 2007 went unsolved due to limitations in DNA technology; however, the sexual assault kits from these cases were recently submitted for testing.
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The Queensland Government will provide an initial investment of more than $95 million to establish a new framework to drive significant reforms to DNA and forensic services as part of its response to recommendations from the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland.
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On a Saturday in April 1994, 89-year-old Lillian DeCloe relaxed at her Pompano Beach home and awaited a visit later that day from a niece who helped care for her. That visit would never happen.
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Following an intensive long-term investigation involving numerous interviews and extensive DNA analysis, human remains recovered near the Henry Hudson Bike Trail in Atlantic Highlands in 1988 have now been positively identified.
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Skeletal remains found in 2004 are now known to be Rogers "Roger" Lee Ellis, missing in 1976 from Wisconsin Rapids.
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During initial processing, analysis, and identification—any subsequent attempts in the years to come—commingling of skeletal elements among individuals within the same common grave and between common graves likely occurred.
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DNA has identified a suspect in the unsolved 1972 Thanksgiving weekend murder of an Army veteran and rape of the woman he was with at the time.
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This sort of plant trace evidence is more valuable than ever today in forensic investigations and can include microscopic materials from plant seeds, pollen, spores, and their DNA.
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The Queens District Attorney’s Office Cold Case Unit solved the 46-year-old homicide case with the NYPD using forensic genetic genealogy for the first time in New York City.
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