In recent years, the police have made several attempts to identify the unknown DNA profile as technology has developed.
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The new partnership will enable cutting-edge FGG tools for previously tested casework and will also establish a combined workflow for current cases or cases that have not been entered into CODIS yet.
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Brandy Keesee and Annabelle Smith were part of a cohort working with the Montana Innocence Project to free Bernard Pease, a Billings man wrongly convicted 40 years ago for murder.
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Cuyahoga County’s Medical Examiner’s Office developed the Heroin Involved Death Investigation (HIDI) Protocol to support a safe, coordinated, and rapid response to active drug overdose death scenes.
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The suspect in the rape and murder of Mary Mathis Davis has been identified as Russell Grant Wood of Lexington, North Carolina, however he died in 2013, and will therefore not be indicted.
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Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Homicide Unit have arrested and charged a suspect in a nearly 40-year-old cold case homicide investigation.
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Larry Atkinson, 64, has been indicted for strangling 57-year-old Sarah Roberts, who suffered from emphysema, and her 26-year-old daughter Sharon, who was disabled.
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Sheriffs who assume the role of coroner underreport officer-involved homicides compared with departments where the roles are separate. In California, 48 of 58 counties have coroner-sheriffs.
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Investigators have released a new facial approximation of a Jane Doe whose body was found in 1993. At least 30 relatives of Jane Doe have been identified and contacted, but her identity still remains a mystery.
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A Southern California man was charged last week with killing two women in 1981 after DNA evidence linked him to the crimes, prosecutors announced Thursday.
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