On July 20, 1977 the body of a woman was recovered from the Mississippi River. Although it could not be determined how long the deceased had been in the water, investigators estimated she had probably died sometime earlier that year.
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DNA extracted from the femur bone of human remains found in 1985 has given 16-year-old Dorothy Harrison back her name, and became the first—of what police hope is many—genetic genealogy-enabled identification for the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office in New Mexico.
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The suspect stabbed the victim over 30 times and nearly decapitated her. When investigators arrived and began processing the crime scene, they located a blood trail that began on the balcony, continued to the sidewalk below, around the apartment complex buildings, ending at the parking lot.
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The alliance between database stewards will standardize bioinformatic methods for FIGG analysis and offer cost-effective whole genome sequencing services for challenging forensic samples.
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A law passed on April 1, 2005 will have life-changing consequences for families across the UK from next year.
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The DNA Doe Project announced the identification of two men in two separate cases hailing from Tucson, Arizona.
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A California man prosecutors called a serial killer was convicted Thursday of raping and killing two women in the 1980s after investigators linked him to DNA evidence, prosecutors said.
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Initial anthropological analysis suggested an ancestry that contradicted the known ancestry of the missing man and the recovered remains were insufficient to produce an estimation of the man's height, hair color, and other physical traits.
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Earlier this year, a forensic genetic genealogy investigation started, and the remains were tentatively identified as Kathryn Coffey.
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Carla Davis joins Othram after a year-long collaboration in which she led genealogical efforts to restore names to unidentified persons in Virginia, Alabama, and her home state of Mississippi.
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