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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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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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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The Somerton Man is Australia's most well-known forensic case that has defied analysis since the man was found dead on Somerton Beach, South Australia, on Dec. 1, 1948.
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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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Several persons of interest were interviewed and prints were submitted for comparison. Ultimately the comparisons revealed no one matched the evidence at the crime scene.
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The NC Identity Project worked with Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD to identify Napoleon McNeil, a Raleigh-area man last seen in 2009.
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Archaeologists discovered the remains of approximately 13 individuals believed to be Hessian soldiers killed in the Battle of Red Bank in 1777.
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On October 19, 2004, skeletal remains were located in the Tillamook State Forest off of Highway 26. The public’s assistance was sought to help identify the remains and numerous informational tips were received, however, the remains were not identified, and the case became cold.
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