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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
It was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling. [3] The prosecution relied heavily on DNA evidence and it became a case study for the use of the technique in court. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
A pair of men already serving life behind bars have been charged in two Tampa Bay-area cold case murders thanks to DNA evidence that previously helped exonerate a death row inmate.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Investigators in Wisconsin have used DNA evidence to solve a 65-year-old cold case involving a 7-year-old boy whose body was found in a culvert.
Roberts' case is notable for being one of the first cold cases in the world to be solved using DNA extracted from rootless hair. Due to the DNA of Roberts' bones being too deteriorated to successfully extract a complete profile, the profile was completed using new developments in rootless hair sequencing, methods pioneered by paleogenomics ...
Then, in 2013, a match emerged — an unknown male DNA profile Las Vegas police filed in connection with a 1991 cold case involving a female who had been found raped and murdered in her apartment ...
In 2003, detectives re-opened the case in the hope of finding DNA evidence on the gun, but were not successful as too many people had handled the weapon. It was believed the victim's clothes had been lost. However, in 2008, a team of retired detectives investigating cold cases found Drinkwater's clothes in storage. Her blue coat, underwear and ...
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 ...