For nearly 40 years, the brutal murder of Terri McAdams remained unsolved. But with help from the emerging and cutting edge field of investigative genetic genealogy, the Arlington Police Department and FBI Dallas Field Office have finally identified her killer. On February 14, 1985, Ms. McAdams was found severely beaten and deceased inside an apartment in the 2500 block of Walnut Hill Circle. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled her cause of death as blunt force trauma. There was also evidence she’d been sexually assaulted.
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Thanks to a second opinion from a forensic scientist, homicide charges against a Pennsylvania man have officially been dropped. The Lehigh County District Attorney's Office announced last week that Ethan Bastien, 22, will not be charged with the October 2, 2023 shooting death of Sian Cartagena, 18.
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Renowned forensic anthropologist Robert Mann of the University of Hawai?i at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) has examined more than 15,000 ancient and modern human skeletons throughout his career. This summer, he was invited to analyze human remains from a newly unearthed area in ancient Pompeii, marking one of the most fascinating investigations of his career.
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Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the death of a female found at 10225 Bissonnet Street about 11:35 a.m. on November 12, 2007.
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After 36 years, a man whose remains were discovered in a wooded area near I-95 in Jupiter, Florida, has been identified as John Lee Peppard, born October 10, 1946.
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Police in Florida have likely found the bodies of two individuals using sonar technology in a canal thought to be missing for the last 50 years.
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Investigators from the Ventura County Cold Case Unit have arrested
Warren Luther Alexander (DOB 01/12/51), of Diamondhead, Mississippi, on three counts of
murder, related to a series of strangulation murders that occurred in 1977.
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Thirty-seven years ago on October 13, 1987, a newborn baby was found discarded and dead inside a dumpster behind a business in the 5400 block of La Sierra Avenue. A man rummaging for recyclables found the baby. The newborn girl’s death was ruled a homicide by the Riverside County Coroner’s Office.
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After nearly three decades, the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office has announced the resolution of a cold case involving the murder of 15-year-old Danielle “Danni” Houchins from Belgrade, Montana. Houchins was tragically killed on September 21, 1996.
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In September 2023, the partial skeletal remains of an unidentified individual were discovered by a maintenance diver at the Lawrence Hydroelectric Plant in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lawrence is located north of Boston on the Merrimack River. The remains were found approximately 60 feet underwater along with a blue shirt, a black jacket, and a pair of thermal underwear pants, all of which were found against the water intake grate.
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