The rising number of deaths in Clark County has outpaced population growth and left investigators with less time to work on cold cases. But that didn't stop Christine Holroyd.
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In March 1980, the New York State Police investigated the discovery of a victim left headless and handless in a travel trunk near a dumpster on the grounds of the Hudson View Apartment Complex in Fishkill, NY.
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The FBI investigative team conducted research resulting from the DNA profile created by Othram and provided an investigative lead to to the New York State Police.
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The initial report indicated the remains were like that of an African American female in her late teens to early 20s. Cold case detectives connected with Othram earlier this year and learned the remains belonged to a Caucasian female.
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After more than four decades, and attempts by several DNA testing labs, Ralph Tufano has successfully been identified.
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The authors conclude their method can solve a case with a 7,500-person family tree around 94% of the time. The standard method’s success rate in those cases is about 4%.
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A former deputy Nevada attorney general who ran for the state Supreme Court and was later affiliated with the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.
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101 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre that saw Black people receive little lawful protection, forensic scientists are asking descendants to submit their DNA to a database that can be accessed by law enforcement officials.
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With no identifying information available, officials from the Coroner’s Office began an exhaustive, years-long process to learn the identity of the individual.
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Through an autopsy, investigators determined that the cause of death was asphyxia due to injury to the neck. The injury was consistent with manual strangulation and therefore the death is suspected to be a homicide.
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