The victim’s hands were missing, presumably removed by her killer so she could not be identified through fingerprints, and her head was nearly severed from her body.
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If countries do not work cooperatively on an FIGG framework, the forensic community could end up with a fractured system vulnerable to inadvertent legal missteps.
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The Supreme Court of Ohio has vacated the conviction of a man linked by investigative genetic genealogy to the kidnapping, rape and attempted murder of a woman in 1993, finding the statute of limitations to charge him with attempted aggravated murder ran out 20 years before his indictment.
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With no suspect then being identified, the rape evidence kit remained in the MCSO evidence room until 2016, when a project resourced by the State of Michigan made resources available to examine all untested rape kits.
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Although investigators found some clothing near the recovered remains, there were no identifying documents or clues as to who the man was.
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Since 2018, the EPS has used investigative genetic genealogy on five cases, including three sexual assaults, one armed robbery and one human remains investigation.
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DNA evidence left behind 35 years ago and the use of forensic genealogy has led to the arrest of an Indiana man on charges that he sexually assaulted two Rhode Island girls in 1987.
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Othaniel Philip Ames, previously known as Stilly John Doe, was born in 1898 and died in 1980, but was unidentified for more than 40 years after his death.
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Decades later, 56-year old Jason Follette of Gouldsboro is identified as the suspect in multiple 1990s assaults, marking the first sex assault case solved in Maine with forensic investigative genetic genealogy.
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Family members were excluded as suspects in Thompson’s murder; however, test results indicated the suspect was a close family relative.
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