Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit has identified the remains of Kristen Galvan, a Houston-area teen who went missing in January 2020 after becoming a victim of human trafficking.
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Toronto Police resolved two unidentified human remains investigations that had remained unsolved for approximately 30 and 20 years, restored the identities of two previously unidentified victims, and enabled notification and reunification with surviving family members.
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The Utah State Bureau of Investigation has successfully identified an unknown deceased male discovered more than 14 years ago under an Interstate 15 overpass near Roy, Utah.
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Before this program, the average turnaround time for receiving DNA analysis results in non-violent crime investigations was 466 days, and 170 days for violent crimes.
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In June 1978, the remains of an unidentified female were discovered in Kern County. Without an identity for the victim, the case went cold.
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Residential burials, in which people are buried inside of or very close to their houses, are no longer common, especially in the West.
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Forensic researchers discovered a security flaw in Applied Biosystems Human Identification Software—the software most American crime labs use to read DNA evidence—that left it vulnerable to nearly undetectable modification to .fsa/.hid file outputs.
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After decades of stalled leads and inconclusive testing, advanced forensic genetic genealogy finally provided the answers investigators had long sought, revealing the decedent as Armes Henry Lahti.
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Police determined the remains were an adult man, but few other details could be determined, such as his approximate age.
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The Boulder County Coroner's Office has positively identified 22-year-old, Douglas Sumner, as the individual whose remains were discovered on the upper northern rim of Blue Mesa in Bluebell Canyon on Aug. 21, 1971.
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