In June 2004, the skeletal remains of an unidentified individual were found by an exterminator in a concrete coal bin in the basement of a house in East Lake, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Parga was 22 years old and pregnant when she was killed by Wilson Chouest, who was convicted of her murder in 2018. Her identification was the product of seven years of genealogy research, making this the toughest case ever solved by the DNA Doe Project.
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This marks the final unidentified individual on St. Petersburg Police Department's John/Jane Doe cold case list.
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The case saw a significant breakthrough in 2019, when the man’s remains were exhumed. The exhumation enabled investigators to obtain a DNA profile from a femur bone.
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It is believed Patricia Ann Ritchie was last seen in 1977 in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is unknown at this time exactly when and with whom Ritchie traveled to Florida before her death.
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These efforts ultimately led to the positive identification of the remains found in 2024 as belonging to Luke Micheal Butler, whose partial remains were previously identified in 2022.
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Jeanette Marcotte was last seen in Saskatchewan in 1981 or 1982, three years before her remains were found in Florida.
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Last week, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) identified the suspect involved in a 1998 murder, as well as the remains of a woman found on the side of the road in 2018.
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Despite a lengthy investigation that included releasing a composite sketch of what the man likely looked like when he was alive, he could not be identified and became known as Robeson County Doe.
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ISP Special Agents continued to investigate the matter in collaboration with the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office and recently submitted a DNA sample from a possible relative for comparison purposes.
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