Human remains discovered in 1981 in Blount County have been identified through a partnership between the Blount County Sheriff’s Office, the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Unidentified Human Remains Initiative.
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A composite sketch for the suspect was created and released to the public during the investigation. Over the years, investigators ruled out several potential suspects, including serial killers.
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On Aug. 30, 1988, railway workers repairing a section of track discovered the body of a man in the Coster Rail Yard area of Knoxville.
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The Paragould Police Department has identified and arrested a suspect in the 2023 sexual assault of a child under the age of 14.
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Kuchinsky had last been seen in the mid-1970s, ten years before his skull was found. A transnational team of over forty volunteers worked intensively to restore his identity, ultimately identifying him in less than 24 hours.
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Staff at Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center identified a candidate for “Becca” within days – Becca Mallekoote, who would have been 18 years old in 1991.
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The remains were previously listed as Jane Doe until recently, through forensic genetic genealogy, she has been identified as Linda Lee Schock. Linda’s death is classified as a homicide.
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A homicide victim whose remains were found in Grant County, Washington in 2011 have been identified as 39-year-old Jorgé Palayo-Rodriguez.
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The two suspects told police that they targeted the victim because he was a stranger in the neighborhood. The man was looking for a place to buy beer and the two men lured him to the side of a building and stabbed him.
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In January 1979, the remains of an unidentified newborn baby were found in a plastic bag in a landfill in Whiteville, a town in Columbus County, North Carolina.
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