A bill addressing law enforcements use of genetic genealogy DNA databases like GEDmatch and Ancestry failed to pass the Utah House of Representatives late last week amid concerns it was not specific enough to prevent police “fishing expeditions.”
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It was believed the skull was that of a Caucasian male, between the ages of 15-18 years old and had been deceased 1-3 years at the time of discovery.
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In 2018, Dallas Police Cold Case Homicide Detective Noe Camacho reopened the case and
worked with the Dallas County DA Sexual Assault Kit Initiative team on new types of forensic testing techniques.
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Nearly 70 years after skeletal remains were discovered in Stanley Park, the Vancouver Police Department has finally identified the victims in the city’s oldest unsolved murder case.
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In March 1982, a young woman's body was discovered by an off duty Wauwatosa firefighter. The woman was floating between two metal barrels that were tied to a nearby pier in the Milwaukee River.
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DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago.
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The cause of death is not confirmed. However, during the autopsy the unidentified man was found to have several injuries that were consistent with being hit by a motor vehicle.
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GCMEO and DNA Doe Project (DDP) partnered to use DNA and genealogy to identify the remains in the 19-year-old cold case that became known as Gwinnett Co John Doe 2003.
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After more than three years of painstaking investigative genetic genealogy into very distant DNA matches, DDP volunteers were able to narrow down the Doe’s family to the descendants of a couple in Indiana who had migrated to the Seattle area.
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Using investigative genetic genealogy, DDP was able to solve the 45-year-old cold case of the woman known only as Lilydale Jane Doe 1976 since her body was discovered.
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