DNA evidence has helped Seattle Police detectives identify and arrest a Seattle woman for the death of her newborn son, who was found in the trash can of a Lake City gas station restroom in 1997.
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In the 2+ years since the first bill proposal, Sydnor and Shetty worked with stakeholders in the forensic genetic genealogy industry to re-author a version that would allow law enforcement to do its job while also protecting the public’s constitutional privacy.
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In December 1990, a couple walking on a rural road in Southwest Missouri discovered the decomposed remains of a young woman. She had been hog-tied and dumped next to an abandoned farmhouse.
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She is currently known only as Bones-17. Detectives with the King County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit, and forensic anthropologist Katherine Taylor, need help to determine her true identity.
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In February of 1988, a couple walking in Cheyenne, Wyoming came across a deceased infant in a culvert. An autopsy revealed that the child had air in his lungs and stomach, indicating the child had been born alive.
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After 44 years, and thanks to data uploaded by a nephew and the efforts of so many groups working as team, Beth Doe was identified as 15-year-old Evelyn Colon.
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Soosay was found in an almond orchard near Bakersfield, California in 1980. She was an unidentified victim of suspected serial killer Wilson Chouest.
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Of the four victims found, three have now been identified. Michael Bauer and John Bartlett were identified early in the investigation leaving “Adam Doe” and “Brad Doe” unidentified for years.
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Nearly 200 years later, the great-great-great grandson of the HMC Erebus’s engineer provided a DNA sample that confirmed the identity of skeletal remains first discovered in 1859 as Warrant Officer John Gregory—the first member of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to be positively identified.
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In November 1980, an archaeologist discovered a shallow grave in an isolated San Bernardino desert area which contained the bodies of two unidentified homicide victims, a male, and a female.
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