In October 2022, an email tip to NamUs suggested investigators look at Paula Boudreaux’s case and that there may be a link to the unidentified remains from 1989.
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Despite the 400+ miles separating the crime scenes, investigators have linked a now-51-year-old man to both of the crimes through DNA and investigative genetic genealogy.
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On August 16, 1975, the body of a deceased female, found bound, gagged, and wrapped in a tarp was discovered in a drainage ditch in East Haven, Conn.
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In February 2021, the case was entered into NamUs as UP77898. With few leads to go on, the case soon went cold.
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An autopsy revealed the most striking aspect of injury was blunt force trauma but, due to the body's state of decomposition, a majority of the soft tissue was gone.
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Detectives learned Michael Ruff Wigley was investigated in the early 1980’s for two separate incidents of sexual assault cases in central Texas.
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In the most promising breakthrough yet, forensic scientists and researchers have generated investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) profiles for 6 unidentified individuals excavated from Oaklawn Cemetery during the 1921Graves investigation to identify victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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A new bill in Florida that seeks to add privacy protections for people who share their DNA with third-parties unanimously passed the Senate committee late last week.
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In the years that followed, the case grew cold, and due to a far less extensive records keeping process by the Sheriff's Office and the Coroner's Office at the time, it is unclear the extent of the work that investigators may have done.
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Two fisherman discovered a nude female body along the south shore of the Spokane River, her hands and feet were dismembered and her head was decapitated.
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