An Ohio man was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for his 12-year campaign of harassment–via letters and phone calls–against a television actress and her daughter in which he threatened to torture, rape and kill them.
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Genetic genealogy has been used to identify both the victim and the killer in the same case.
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Numerous attempts had been made since Mason was found to identify her including releasing images of her distinctive tattoo, adding her case to the OSBI Cold Case Cards, and releasing forensic sketches.
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A DNA profile was developed for the victim and entered into CODIS as well as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System in hopes that she would eventually be identified.
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Authorities are investigating Artmen's link to other murders. He has already been tied through DNA to a 2006 Maryland homicide.
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Earlier this year, a forensic genetic genealogy investigation started, and the remains were tentatively identified as Kathryn Coffey.
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Carla Davis joins Othram after a year-long collaboration in which she led genealogical efforts to restore names to unidentified persons in Virginia, Alabama, and her home state of Mississippi.
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Initial anthropological analysis suggested an ancestry that contradicted the known ancestry of the missing man and the recovered remains were insufficient to produce an estimation of the man's height, hair color, and other physical traits.
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The DNA Doe Project announced the identification of two men in two separate cases hailing from Tucson, Arizona.
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A California man prosecutors called a serial killer was convicted Thursday of raping and killing two women in the 1980s after investigators linked him to DNA evidence, prosecutors said.
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