Using investigative genetic genealogy, DDP was able to solve the 45-year-old cold case of the woman known only as Lilydale Jane Doe 1976 since her body was discovered.
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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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Law enforcement agencies and digital forensics labs aren’t immune to the disruptive and dangerous effects of malware either.
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Police were unable to locate the involved suspect, however, similarities in the murder and evidence at the scene connected the suspect with two additional murders.
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A Georgia sheriff who last year reopened an investigation into the 2013 death of a teenager found inside a rolled-up gym mat at school has offered a $500,000 reward of his own money after the parents of the teen continue to state that he was murdered.
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Native American tribes have reached settlements over the toll of opioids totaling $590 million with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and the country’s three largest drug distribution companies.
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It resulted in a large-scale operation involving subject matter experts from the RAF and the Army, as well as forensic archaeologists who were able to identify the remains as male and more than half-a-century old.
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The identification of a suspect in four murders in Denver over 40 years ago has further cemented the importance of cold case units within police departments, as well as investigative genetic genealogy.
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In May 1991, an unknown female passenger was riding in a tractor-trailer collision, which ultimately ended in a severe fire.
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During a review of this case in 2021 by the Sheriff’s Homicide Unsolved Unit, forensic evidence left at the crime scene was resubmitted for examination, using current technology.
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