This funding will support advanced genetic genealogy techniques to help identify victims involved in unresolved criminal cases whose identities remain unknown.
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In May 1987, a woman was raped at knifepoint by an unknown man in her Toronto apartment. Nearly six years later in 1993, a young woman was attacked by an unknown man while she was on a walking path in Oakville. The person responsible for the assault of both women was unknown for decades.
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The woman, a confessed victim of Detroit serial killer Shelly Brooks, could not be identified.
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The Ramapo College of New Jersey Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center and the Retired Investigators Guild are proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership aimed at addressing one of the most pressing challenges in law enforcement: unsolved violent crime.
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On June 22, 1988, two 11-year-old girls were sexually assaulted during a sleepover in a playhouse attic on a property in Port Angeles, Wash.
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While SEMO students learned valuable investigative skills by searching missing persons databases and conducting records research, Othram’s in-house forensic genetic genealogy team worked to develop new leads in the case.
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A young girl, whose remains were discovered in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2014, has been identified as Mary Sue Fink, born April 29, 1959.
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The Carla Walker Act would dedicate federal grant funds to support forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) DNA analysis to help solve previously unsolvable cold cases.
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The Plano Police Department identified and arrested Nicholas Ray Carney, a 64-year-old man, as the suspect in the 1991 abduction and sexual assault of an 8-year-old child. Carney has also been linked to a similar case in Dallas from 1999, and the police have reason to believe there are more victims.
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After nearly two decades, a person responsible for the murder of 42-year-old Suzanna Alvarado has been identified and arrested.
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