As interns for the Howard County Police Department, the students documented and digitized evidence, reevaluated fingerprints from more than 50 years ago, and leveraged genealogy and AI technology.
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They soon came to learn that the initial assessments from 1988 were inaccurate. Originally, authorities believed that New Buffalo Jane Doe was a Caucasian woman in her 40s or 50s, but she turned out to be African American and in her 70s at the time of her death.
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Detectives with the CMPD Cold Case Unit have identified a 2016 deceased victim using forensic investigative genetic genealogy.
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Crandell was found murdered in her office at Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly. The suspect is Baari Shabazz. He died in 2019 at the age of 69.
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After 57 years, the Wake County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim of a 1968 homicide—a breakthrough made possible through the dedication of partner agencies and advancements in forensic genealogy.
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Reich drowned in a boating accident in January 1978 and his body, which was missing a mandible, was recovered after being found along the rocks of a jetty about a month later.
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On June 7, 1970, kids playing in the desert located human remains buried in a shallow grave. The remains were unidentifiable.
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In June 1990, the skeletal remains of an unidentified individual were found by a fisherman three miles north of Barfield Landing on the west side of the Mississippi River bank.
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The Cold Case Unit investigated and closed two decades-old homicide cold cases stemming from the deaths of 49-year-old Cynthia McKenna in 2007 and 24-year-old Debra Stone in 1984.
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On Aug. 13, 1998, a badly decomposed body was located in dense shrubbery in a ravine in the 1300 block of Avocado in El Cajon, California.
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