Landscapers discovered human skeletal remains on December 6, 1993, in a wooded area.
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A small public liberal arts college in Bergen County, New Jersey launched the world’s first investigative genetic genealogy center on Thursday.
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The DNA profile—unknown at the time—was indicted as “John Doe #147” to ensure that the statute of limitations did not expire. John Doe #147 was charged with one count of rape.
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The arrested suspect was one of several individuals detectives focused on through the years, and ultimately, the advancement of scientific DNA technology, including genetic genealogy, led to his arrest.
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In 2007, DNA obtained at the crime scenes linked the cases and investigators determined the same man was responsible for both homicides.
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Family members were excluded as suspects in Thompson’s murder; however, test results indicated the suspect was a close family relative.
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DNA evidence left behind 35 years ago and the use of forensic genealogy has led to the arrest of an Indiana man on charges that he sexually assaulted two Rhode Island girls in 1987.
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Othaniel Philip Ames, previously known as Stilly John Doe, was born in 1898 and died in 1980, but was unidentified for more than 40 years after his death.
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Decades later, 56-year old Jason Follette of Gouldsboro is identified as the suspect in multiple 1990s assaults, marking the first sex assault case solved in Maine with forensic investigative genetic genealogy.
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Since 2018, the EPS has used investigative genetic genealogy on five cases, including three sexual assaults, one armed robbery and one human remains investigation.
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