After being disbanded two years ago, the Portland Police Bureau has announced the reinstatement of the Cold Case Unit thanks to a grant awarded through the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).
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After nearly half a century, a man whose remains were found in Granby, Conn., has been identified as 22-year-old Patrick Andrew Nopper.
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A little over a year after identifying a suspect in the 1970 homicide of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers, the Anne Arundel County Police Department (Maryland) have identified a second suspect.
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Police responded to the scene and located the partially charred torso of a white male victim. The man's legs had been severed and his head and arms were never located.
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Investigators located a woman named Lorraine Stahl, who had moved from the area in the months prior, and determined that her identity had been assumed by the unidentified decedent.
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Right now, 163 unidentified remains await further testing in Washington. The new funding will supplement existing state and federal DNA testing resources.
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Ward Raymond Thomas, aged 54 at the time of his disappearance, vanished from a Veteran’s Medical facility in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1972. It would be 24 years before his skull was located in the Scioto River in the same area.
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After 43 years, a man whose remains were found in Pomona Park, Florida, has been identified as homicide victim William Irving Monroe, III.
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Researchers received news that the Human DNA Identification Lab has earned accreditation to perform forensic investigative genetic genealogy, which will allow them to assist in cold case investigations.
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Uploading this profile to the Virginia state database revealed a link between Baker’s death and the ongoing homicide investigation of Jacqueline Lard in Stafford County.
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Although the woman's face was recognizable, her identity was unknown, and the case went cold for nearly 40 years.
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The thrill of the chase is what draws so many to the field, and the satisfaction of helping bring justice to victims of violent crime is the icing on the cake. With that said, there are some enormous drawbacks to working in IGG.
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In 2023, DNA samples extracted from the remains were sent to Intermountain Forensics, a non-profit laboratory in Salt Lake City, Utah, for analysis and whole-genome sequencing.
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Japel was 70 years old at the time of her death. Betty Lou Japel was last heard from in 2006 after going missing while traveling with her partner, Kenneth Miller.
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Through dedicated inter-agency cooperation, the remains of a previously unidentified young woman have been identified as Sandra Young, a Portland teenager who went missing from the Portland metro area more than five decades ago.
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