At approximately 1:35 P.M., a passerby located the body of “Jane Doe” off Rt. 136, approximately 1.5 miles east of Rt. 150 hanging near the base of the utility pole, her feet on the ground and knees bent.
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A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists.
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These clues led investigators to conclude that the remains belonged to an adult woman who died sometime in the early 1900s.
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Deaths due to illicit ketamine use have increased twenty-fold since 2015, but these deaths are increasingly occurring in complex polydrug settings, raising doubts over whether single-substance drug policies can reduce harms.
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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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On October 14, 2025, Missouri is set to execute Lance Shockley by lethal injection. The circumstantial evidence is compelling, but comprehensive DNA testing wasn’t done—and the courts have decided that it never will be.
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