In 2018, the Marana Police Department re-opened the investigation to try different and new investigative techniques in an attempt to identify John Doe #44.
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The latest effort to address a shortage of forensic pathologists in Washington has stalled, even though the national shortage is getting worse, forcing some states to appeal to the federal government for help.
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After more than three years of painstaking investigative genetic genealogy into very distant DNA matches, DDP volunteers were able to narrow down the Doe’s family to the descendants of a couple in Indiana who had migrated to the Seattle area.
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With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits after the COVID-19 pandemic finally recedes, a shift that public health experts expect in the months ahead.
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American Indians are disproportionately affected by the crisis of unidentified decedents; there are more than 4.5 times more missing American Indians reported than human remains that have been found and estimated to be American Indians.
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Governor Ned Lamont announced he will introduce a comprehensive package of legislative proposals aimed at eliminating gun violence in Connecticut through a series of targeted initiatives.
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A tip from a Georgia sheriff’s office has helped the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office bring closure to a 50 year-old triple homicide case that occurred in Boone, N.C. on Feb. 3, 1972, known locally as the Durham Case.
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GCMEO and DNA Doe Project (DDP) partnered to use DNA and genealogy to identify the remains in the 19-year-old cold case that became known as Gwinnett Co John Doe 2003.
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At the helm is AFP Chief Forensic Scientist Sarah Benson, who was at the forefront of developing a new explosives analysis capability in 2000, which positioned the AFP to work alongside Australian and international counterparts in the aftermath of the tragic Bali bombings 20 years ago.
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Above-ground nuclear testing was considered a pretty bad idea, which is why it was banned so quickly. Johnstone-Belford says the accidental by-product for scientists is one good thing that's come out of it.
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