The cold case murders of two Orange County women have been solved as a result of a joint investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) investigation.
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In September 2019, human remains were found on the roof of a building in downtown Biloxi, Mississippi. The building was abandoned and had been unoccupied for at least 15 years.
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Twenty years after her partial skeletal remains were located by construction workers, the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office and the DNA Doe Project have determined that her name was Pamela Darlene Young.
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His ancestral ties to a small town in southern Italy combined with months of research using historical records, geographic and immigration patterns, birth records, descendancy searching and more gave him away—that and a discarded coffee cup at the Philadelphia International Airport.
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The victim was slumped against a fence in the backyard and had been stabbed several times in the neck. His car was missing and later found abandoned over a mile from the crime scene.
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A Wyoming woman has been arrested and is awaiting extradition to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to face arraignment in the death 25 years ago of a baby found discarded in the waste pit of an outhouse.
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On the 40th anniversary of the finding of Princess Doe, investigators announced the identity of Princess Doe as 17-year-old Dawn Olanick. They also charged Arthur Kinlaw with 1st degree murder in her homicide.
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced his office’s DNA forensic genetic genealogy program has now helped solve three cold cases, including one with multiple victims.
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Anne Pham disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class at Highland Elementary School on January 21, 1982. She was never seen alive again.
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The unidentified woman was found with a small 8 inch Christmas tree and when her identity could not be determined, she became known as "Christmas Tree Lady."
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