A student is using hair from a 120-year-old taxidermy bear to explore new ways of preventing wildlife crime.
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Gradwohl was an experienced amateur filmmaker making films for professional and personal reasons and used films to share his revolutionary medical techniques with colleagues, as well as documenting the daily activities at his laboratory.
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As part of the review, investigators conducted extensive additional interviews, including reinterviews
of people connected to the case.
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In 2021, BODE Technologies was able to conduct a surname search that provided a lead to investigators. That same year, BODE was also able to extract a small amount of DNA from critical evidence; however, the amount obtained was too small for genealogy testing at the time.
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The Coconino County (Arizona) Unidentified Remains Task Force has confirmed the identity of a previously unidentified decedent whose remains were discovered in a wooded area near Mt. Elden Road and Schultz Pass outside Flagstaff in July 1980.
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Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University.
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For 33 years, Lydia Jane Wade McWhorter was known only as “Claudia,” an unidentified victim of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, also known as the “Happy Face Killer.”
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The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner announced?the identification of?a?previously unknown victim of the?September 11, 2001?terror attacks on the World Trade Center?using the breakthrough technique of forensic investigative genetic genealogy.
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All the DNA matches to West Manchester John Doe were distant relatives of his. The closest match shared just 1.7% of their DNA with the unidentified man, and all the other matches shared significantly less than that.
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After 27 years without a suspect or lead, detectives got the break they needed to solve a sexual battery case from an unexpected source: a restaurant fork.
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