One of the six remaining unnamed John Wayne Gacy victims has been identified 44 years after he was murdered with the assistance of genetic genealogy.
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Othram recovered human DNA from the bone and used that hereditary material to conduct a genealogical profile, which led to a family in North Carolina.
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Marion County Sheriff Matt Bayles announced the department has identified the victim of a 1989 cold case homicide, 32 years later.
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Some exclusions were made using a DNA profile developed from crime scene evidence, but the murderer was not identified. The case had again gone cold.
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Using genetic genealogy tools, they identified individuals who could be related to her, and they applied genealogy research and used social media to identify potential common ancestors.
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A man suspected of raping women near Sacramento freeway interchanges several years ago has been arrested after investigators used DNA technology and genealogy websites to zero in on him.
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The sex assault and murder of the 9-year-old fourth grader was one of the oldest unsolved cases in Washington State.
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John Lindberg Scott was just 27 years old when he died in a single-vehicle car crash west of Delafield in 1977.
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Building off five years of research, analysis of 100s of publications and examination of five databases, researchers at the University of Freiburg have recently authored an article in Nature detailing how Europe’s Roma people are vulnerable to poor practice in genetics.
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In March 2004, the NSW Police Force established Strike Force McCoy to investigate 13 separate sexual assaults between Aug. 23, 2003 and Nov. 2, 2004 across the Sydney Metropolitan area.
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