In April 1992, a white female infant was discovered inside a garbage bag in Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi. The Mississippi State Medical Examiner determined that the cause of death was perinatal asphyxia due to smothering.
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DNA reference testing of Gary’s half-sister ultimately confirmed that Spencer Island Doe was Gary Lee Haynie, who was about 29 years old when he went missing.
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Investigators recovered an almost-complete skeleton of a female individual and several distinct articles of clothing associated with the remains.
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The DOJ was able to compare the one latent print with fingerprints known to be Jeffery’s and got a positive match.
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Tracey Dowdeswell is the first to put a number on cases solved using FGG. By doing so, she’s also the first to construct an adequate sample frame for further research into forensic genetic genealogy.
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She had been a student of anthropology in the early 2000s and remembered seeing the skull and bones in the laboratory.
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The badly decomposed body of a woman known as the " lady in the fridge" has been identified 27 years after she was murdered. Now, investigators are appealing to the public to fill in the “pieces” of her life.
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Burlington Police DNA evidence collected from the cigarette butt and dogged investigative work led authorities to the man they say killed Rita Curran within a 70-minute window on a July night in 1971.
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A man who accused his identical twin brother of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl on her way home from buying school supplies and a woman jogger in separate attacks was convicted Thursday of carrying out the crimes more than two decades ago.
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In December 2021, a shoe containing a foot was found near the mouth of the Elwha River in Port Angeles, Washington.
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