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The Golden State Killer investigation, which investigators finally solved in 2018, popularized forensic genetic genealogy. Scientists say using math to sort through DNA could help investigators ...
Cold case solved: After 33 years, Illinois woman found in cornfield has been identified. ... The county exhumed her body in 2013 to try and obtain DNA and re-examine the findings of the early ...
It was the coldest of cold cases. And then, when the time was right, an unassuming woman with no police experience solved it in an evening. In 1987, a young Canadian couple, Jay Cook and Tanya Van ...
Investigative genetic genealogy, also known as forensic genetic genealogy, is the emerging practice of utilizing genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies for identifying suspects or victims in criminal cases. [1] As of December 2023, the use of this technology has solved a total of 651 criminal cases, including 318 individual ...
Murder of Michelle Martinko. The murder of Michelle Martinko occurred in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, on December 19, 1979. It was a cold case until 2018, when familial DNA identified a suspect 39 years after the crime who was charged, tried and convicted of her murder. [2]
Murder of Marise Chiverella. On March 18, 1964, Marise Ann Chiverella, a 9-year-old American girl, was raped and murdered while on her way to school by 22-year-old James Paul Forte in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The murder went unsolved for nearly 58 years, until it was announced by authorities in 2022 that the perpetrator had been identified as ...
In 2021, genealogists solved the cold case murder of Barbara Tucker, who was 19 when she died, by using DNA technology. Her murderer, Robert Arthur Plympton, 60, was found guilty of the crime in ...
The case was entered into NCIC and NamUs in August 2012. Her description did not match any local missing persons cases and with all leads exhausted, the case soon went cold. In January 2022, Othram, using DNA extracted from the body after an autopsy, identified the decedent as 67-year-old Jean Turner Ponders of Roswell, Georgia. Her death is ...