After 44 years, a murdered teen, whose remains were found in a Rancho Cucamonga, California vineyard, has been identified as 17-year-old Karen Marie Heverly.
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Biological deposits found on the cuffs of the jersey sleeves revealed DNA profiles of two unknown individuals. The results excluded Santillan as a contributor.
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To identify Walker’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA analysis.
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When juries hear a case, it’s imperative they can easily grasp a simple explanation of the chain of events.
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Stack went missing in the Niagara Falls State Park, on or around December 4th, 1990, and was believed to have gone over the falls.
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In October 2019, the submitted DNA mixture profile produced no matches in the Virginia DNA Data Bank, prompting periodic searches against both the Virginia and National DNA Data Banks.
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SEMO's osteological and dental analysis revealed that Lincoln County Jane Doe was likely in her teens when she died, rather than being 30-40 years old as suggested in her case file and autopsy report from 1978.
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A new study found that reducing alcohol hours of sale for bars and taverns in a Baltimore neighborhood also reduced homicides by 51 percent within the first month and by 40 percent annually.
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Wastewater monitoring has revealed a 75% increase in detections of the synthetic stimulant pentylone across Australia, according to researchers at the University of South Australia.
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The individual was found deceased near a railroad overcrossing. Investigators determined that the remains were that of a white male, who was estimated to between fifty and seventy years old at his time of death.
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DNA sequencing technologies have identified the historical remains of George Washington’s grandnephews, Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington, from unmarked, fragmentary bones left at the Harewood family cemetery in Charles Town, West Virginia, in the mid-1800s.
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In 2019, the State finally disclosed that it secretly paid Ellison $5,000 for her testimony, after denying it for 17 years. This revelation prompted three of the jurors who had voted to convict Johnson to call for a new trial.
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The study is the first to document intimate partner homicide-related fractures from a forensic anthropological perspective.
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After 44 years, the remains of a man discovered in an unincorporated area of Ojai in Ventura County, California have been identified.
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Forty years ago, 3-year-old Ramona Brown vanished after a house fire killed two of her siblings and destroyed her family’s home.
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