Investigators solved the 1999 murder of a 28-year-old woman through use of California’s familial DNA search program, authorities announced at a news conference punctuated by pushback from the woman’s family.
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The DNA Doe Project, working with the Michigan State Police have determined that a jaw bone washed up on a beach in July 2014 belonged to Ronald Wayne Jager, a fisherman who disappeared in August 2000.
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The Cold Case Unit of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and the Lincoln County Coroners’ Office teamed with the Anthropology Program of Southeast Missouri State University to identify human remains through DNA analysis.
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Isabel Sanchez Bernal was murdered and left in a shallow grave in Mammoth Lakes, but after 17 years she was identified and her killer was brought to justice.
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The baby boy was discovered deceased on December 7, 2003, in Lake Pepin. A second child, a newborn baby girl found deceased on November 4, 1999, was also determined through DNA to be Matter's child.
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By utilizing the DNA and dental, forensic scientists were able to process the biological evidence to determine the identity was that of Susan Hoppes, who was reported missing from Washington on August 9, 1993.
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In spite of the success, however, the DNA profile did not match in any government database. Once again, the case went cold.
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The company’s founders have a longstanding history of collaboration with law enforcement to solve cold cases through their volunteerism with the nonprofit organization DNA Doe Project.
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The young man, murdered almost a half-century ago and unidentified until now, was an Army veteran who had been stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
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Burned skeletal remains found in 2018 have now been identified as Juanita Diane Roxy Coleman, who had been missing since 2016.
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