The unit will now have three full time detectives—instead of one—and their work will expand to include both unsolved homicide and sexual assaults.
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Only 27.5% of those surveyed who said they had suffered abuse confirmed they had disclosed it when they were children.
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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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Johnny Evans Jr., was recently identified as a suspect through a DNA match, and warrants for first-degree burglary and two counts of first-degree rape were then issued for his arrest.
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A digital artist from the University of Dundee has won a prestigious Royal Photographic Society Award for her pioneering work across forensic and medical arts.
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Ohio is one of only two states where strangulation is not a standalone felony. Lawmakers are trying to change that with “Aisha’s Law,” or House Bill 3.
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In August 2021, a new DNA profile for the victim was generated and uploaded into a public access genealogy database.
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Anthropologists believe a bone recovered in the vehicle yesterday is a human bone. The bone will be sent to a lab for testing in an attempt to determine the origin.
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