In another victory for forensic genealogy, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Franklin County Coroner Nate Overmire announced that the skeletal remains of a white male found 36 years ago have been identified.
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Williamson’s body was found by a maintenance worker Aug. 1, 1978 at Poole Knobs Recreation Area on Jones Road near La Vergne. An autopsy showed he suffered multiple gunshot wounds and severe burns.
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King County’s medical examiner and a UW Medicine radiologist discuss a program that hints at change in U.S. death investigations.
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A long-awaited vision for a new Human Identification Laboratory (HIL) at California State University, Chico is starting to take shape, with a formal groundbreaking planned for Friday, November 14.
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Colorado regulatory inspectors discovered over 20 dead bodies in various states of decay hidden inside the Davis Mortuary funeral home owned by elected Pueblo County Coroner Brain Cotter and his brother Chris Cotter.
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Authorities arrested a 43-year-old Pueblo man in connection with the 2022 death of a man whose remains were found in a shallow grave in eastern Pueblo County.
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The decedent was added to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) in the hopes that someone looking for their missing family member might recognize her, but no missing person matches were made. For more than a decade, the woman's identity remained unknown.
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In February 2022, the victim’s fingerprints were retrieved from the investigative case file by our Special Investigations Unit (SIU) and submitted to NamUs for examination by the FBI.
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While detectives questioned Donald after Linda’s disappearance, it was the forensic evidence collected from the victim that provided detectives with enough evidence to file charges.
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What began with just 20 grantees in 2015 has grown into the largest cold case program in the country (arguably, the world), with over 100 grantees spanning 45 states.
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