The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Cold Case Unit identified and charged a man for an unsolved murder that occurred more than 45 years ago.
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WA Police Cold Case Investigations detectives have made a major breakthrough in the 1979 murder of Kerryn Mary Tate, nearly five decades after the 22-year-old was located deceased.
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The Monroe County Medical Examiner determined the remains belonged to a while male between the ages of 35 and 45 years old. The cause of death was ruled blunt force trauma to the head and the manner was homicide.
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On March 28, 2002, a routine inspection by an Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) crew led to the discovery of human skeletal remains in a creek bed along Illinois Route 3 near Gall Road in Columbia, Illinois.
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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office’s G.O.L.D. Unit has identified seven cold case sexual assault offenders through familial DNA searching and forensic genetic genealogy since November 2024.
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After 36 years—and five years of working the case—the DNA Doe Project has identified “Transgender Julie Doe” as Pamela Leigh Walton.
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After more than a decade, human remains found on a beach near Port Angeles, Wash., have been identified as 17-year-old Jeff Surtel.
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Detectives from the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene, and forensic experts at the King County Medical Examiner’s Office later determined that the remains consisted of a human foot.
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The deceased was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for an autopsy that revealed the cause of death was strangulation, and the manner of death classified as a homicide. Unable to identify the man, the investigation remained stagnant for 40 years.
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On April 21, 1988, a tree removal crew, while working in a secluded area of Quincy, located what appeared to be a bone sticking out of the ground.
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