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M-Vac Helps Solve 1979 Murder of 12-Year-Old Girl

M-Vac technology has helped cold case detectives in Montgomery County, Texas solve their oldest homicide case—the 1979 abduction, rape and murder of 12-year-old Lesia Michell Jackson.

 

Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced his office’s DNA forensic genetic genealogy program has now helped solve three cold cases, including one with multiple victims.

 

Authorities have arrested a woman in the killing of a Texas couple who was found beaten to death in their home more than 17 years ago.

 

The unique DNA markers that define this haplogroup, or shared lineage, were passed down from mother to daughter to granddaughter—never through fathers—for 100,000 years.

 

An appeals court stayed this week’s execution of a death row inmate who had raised questions about whether prosecutors had presented false and inaccurate testimony from an expert on whether he would ...

 

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