Late last week, the DNA Doe Project identified two Jane Does: a young woman whose remains were discovered buried in a vacant lot in 1989, and a woman washed ashore in Arizona in 2015.
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On June 3, 1992, a farmer working in a field along Christman Road in Windsor Township discovered a human skull lying atop freshly turned soil.
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Last week, detectives assigned to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit arrested a sexual battery suspect from a 1998 cold case.
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In January 1984, the body of an unidentified woman was discovered at a landfill. Investigators determined that the woman had died before being transported, but despite extensive efforts, her identity remained unknown.
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Authorities in the Permian Basin (Texas) have now identified the man they believe violently raped a 49-year-old woman in a mall parking lot in Midland almost 30 years ago.
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After 33 years, forensic genetic genealogy has led the Madison County Sheriff’s Office (Illinois) to a suspect in the 1993 murder of Randy Gail Black-Sperino, a 34-year-old mother.
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Twenty-eight years after Saco’s murder, evidentiary items collected and preserved at the crime scene were submitted for testing with Identifinders International.
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Astrea Forensics developed a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) DNA profile from the unidentified man’s teeth. The Ramapo College IGG team then used publicly accessible genealogical databases to identify potential relatives and construct the victim’s family tree.
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Her death was investigated by the Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner but as she was carrying no identification and her fingerprints did not match to any known person, she remained unidentified.
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Evidence, originally collected in 1986, was submitted for further examination with improved modern testing; these tests located DNA of an unknown male.
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