In May 2021, the Washington County District Attorney's Office Cold Case Unit partnered with the Washington County Sheriff's Office to continue the investigation into the death of Deborah.
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A young woman who died in 1891 in Sanford, Maine has been identified as Edith Patten. Her coffin and remains had been left behind after the city relocated the rest of the graves.
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The unknown man, found in an apartment parking lot in Lexington, Kentucky, has now been identified as 40-year-old Jimmy Lawrence Medlock.
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The DOJ was able to compare the one latent print with fingerprints known to be Jeffery’s and got a positive match.
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In a major breach of a U.S. Marshals Service computer system this month with ransomware, hackers stole sensitive and personally identifiable data about agency employees and targets of investigations.
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Tracey Dowdeswell is the first to put a number on cases solved using FGG. By doing so, she’s also the first to construct an adequate sample frame for further research into forensic genetic genealogy.
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The Oregon State Police Crime Lab reviewed all the evidence from 1983 and concluded that the lab results from 1983, ruling out suicide, were still accurate and conclusive.
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Last year, investigators received a report from the Serological Research Institute (SERI) stating that male DNA was found on these pieces of evidence.
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The study reports on the oldest genome to date from Cueva del Malalmuerzo in southern Spain, as well as the 7,000 to 5,000-year-old genomes of early farmers from other well-known sites, such as Cueva de Ardales.
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The bill has gained the support of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, who say its implementation could have spared a wrongful conviction and brought justice sooner in the cold case murder of a 9-year-old girl.
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