Investigators have announced a significant breakthrough in three unsolved homicides that occurred in the late 1980s in Isle of Wight County and the City of Hampton (Virginia).
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During the altercation, both the victim and Rodriquez were cut with the knife, and Rodriquez left a drop of blood in the home prior to fleeing.
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Since DNA was first used in forensic science in the late 1980s, it has opened doors to solve cases that have been cold for decades. For the U.S. military, it's been essential in carrying out the age-old motto, "no one left behind."
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Southeast Missouri State University’s Department of History and Anthropology received a check to aid in solving real-life cold cases through forensic anthropology.
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The remains of a Long Island man killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified more than two decades after the 2001 attacks, the New York City medical examiner’s office announced Thursday.
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Laboratories in the United States already use direct PCR for reference samples where the DNA donor is known, but current federal quality assurance standards keep them from using direct PCR for forensic evidence.
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Recently, a suspect in a nearly 29 year old attempted murder cold case was identified using advanced DNA technology, known as familial DNA.
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The project—Single-cell and single molecule analysis for DNA identification (SCAnDi)—will examine whether new techniques in the single-cell analysis field could add valuable new DNA evidence to investigations when used by forensic investigators.
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Creech has been convicted of five murders, including three in Idaho, one in California, and one in Oregon. He is a serial killer who is established to have killed an additional six victims, and has admitted to killing upward of 40 people.
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Twenty years ago, defendants attacked DNA by saying a match was just similar to their own. Now, DNA profiling is so sensitive that the challenge has shifted from who to when: "It’s my DNA, but I deposited it a year ago, not yesterday when the crime happened."
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