DeAngelo, 74, did not cooperate with authorities. But he muttered a confession of sorts after his arrest that cryptically referred to an alter ego named “Jerry” that he said forced him to commit the wave of crimes that appeared to end abruptly in 1986.
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Genetic genealogy has undoubtedly revolutionized forensic work, making its largest impact in cold case investigations.
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New York City lawmakers approved an austere budget early Wednesday that will shift $1 billion from policing to education and social services in the coming year.
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This week, detectives solved Kelly Ann Prosser’s case through genetic genealogy, nearly 38 years after she vanished walking home from school on September 20, 1982.
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For Lydell Grant, acknowledgment that he was wrongfully convicted of murder has only meant purgatory, nearly seven months of it. He is neither free nor behind bars, nor can he restart his life.
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The complaint by Robert Williams is a rare challenge from someone who not only experienced an erroneous face recognition hit, but was able to discover that it was responsible for his subsequent legal troubles.
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Convictions against five people in Nevada were vacated after ProPublica revealed flaws with the drug tests administered by police. The exonerations come after five overturned drug convictions in Oregon.
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A human skull, a pair of worn trousers and a shoe were among the remains unearthed from a mass grave discovered this week in northern Iraq, a remnant of the brutal rule of the Islamic State group.
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The body of a woman found more than three decades ago along an eastern Pennsylvania highway has been identified, but investigators still don’t know how she ended up there.
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Dark hair and beard, light blue eyes, a light complexion and a scar on his head—this is what the 50-year-old man looked like nearly 8,000 years ago when his head was placed on a wooden stake during an ancient ritual.
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