The authors conclude their method can solve a case with a 7,500-person family tree around 94% of the time. The standard method’s success rate in those cases is about 4%.
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Maryland State Police Homicide Unit investigators charged a Florida man in connection with the 2006 murder of a young woman.
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Authorities say newly tested DNA evidence helped them make an arrest in the killings more than eight years ago of a family, including two boys, who were shot in their suburban Houston home.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a retired general and three other members of the army for alleged connection to the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014.
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The funding comes from State General Funds and will go toward nonprofits offering counseling, shelters, the statewide language-accessible crisis line, safety planning, advocacy for sexual and domestic violence survivors, and training for community-based direct service providers.
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Even as encryption gets stronger and consumers embrace digital privacy protections, there are trends afoot that will help the good guys.
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In 2022, Smith’s clothing was reexamined using new technologies and established a suspect DNA profile.
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A former deputy Nevada attorney general who ran for the state Supreme Court and was later affiliated with the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.
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A major Florida sheriff who was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to have lied when he didn’t disclose in his job application that he fatally shot another teenager when he was 14 and that he had used LSD.
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Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or worse.
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