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The researchers used data from 17 actual cases to test their model. In each case, the target’s DNA—that of the suspect or the victim—produced anywhere from 200 to 5,000 matches.
Edward Humes, author of 'The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder,' discusses the implications of forensic genealogy. DNA is solving cold cases everywhere. One ...
In 2020, police exhumed Lindahl's body and used DNA to solve the Maurer case. DNA evidence linked Lindahl to the crime. Lindahl is also accused of raping and later killing Debra Colliander before ...
The chief said the department considers the case closed and hopes identifying Miller's killer will bring her family some closure. Butler said his great-uncle was one of the first officers on the scene of Miller's killing in 1981. He said he feels fortunate to get the chance to solve a homicide that happened when he was just 10 years old.
"Little did I know," she said with a chuckle -- cutting to how a year later a detective from the Michigan State Police called her at work, scaring her that she could be in trouble.
A cold case from 1959 involving a missing 7-year-old came to a conclusion last week through DNA identification, decades after charges against the boy's adoptive parents were dropped for lack of ...
In 2018, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement set up a Genetic Genealogy Program to use GEDmatch to solve cold cases. They reported in 2019 that they had solved four cases. [57] [58] By the end of 2020, the program had led to 10 arrests/identifications and closed several more cases.
The cold case murder of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania mother in 1988 has finally been solved thanks to DNA evidence found on a chilling letter sent to a local newspaper decades ago with intimate ...