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Her case went unsolved for twenty-two years, until Police used advanced DNA technology to help them arrest a suspect in November 2021. [ 2 ] It is the first time in New York City that a case was solved using familial DNA.
That is until Friday, when the Spokane County Sheriff's Office announced they had solved the case using genetic genealogy. Keith D. Lindblom, who died in a fire on April 11, 1981, is suspected of ...
The murder of Debra Lee Miller, a case that spent more than 40 years unsolved, has finally been closed after DNA testing allowed officers to pinpoint the culprit Image credits: WKYC Channel 3
An in-depth DNA analysis revealed — 33 years later — that Rodriguez was in fact the victim of the gruesome slaying. Judy Rodriguez’s family reported her missing in 1991, a short time after ...
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 ...
The case helped bring attention to familial searching, a process wherein genetic testing for relatives leads to the discovery of a suspect. [2] With both false accusations and the ultimate conviction obtained through familial searching, the case is an example for how non-criminal genetic repositories are used in criminal investigations, and ...
Bass had not been a suspect during the initial investigation, but he became a person of interest when police began using familial DNA techniques to trace the unknown DNA sample collected from the crime scene. [7] Police covertly obtained Bass's DNA from a discarded soda can and plastic cup collected by a coworker after three months of surveillance.
In 2018, it led to the arrest of the Golden State Killer, and it has recently helped solve several other cold cases, including a 1974 murder in Wisconsin and a 1988 murder in Pennsylvania.