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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. ... solved with ...
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.
The key to solving JonBenét Ramsey's murder could lie in evidence found at the scene nearly 30 years ago.. When police searched the 6-year-old’s home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996, they ...
A year prior to the arrest of DeAngelo, an individual was wrongly identified as a suspect in the murder of Angie Dodge, an 18-year-old woman who was the victim of a 1996 murder in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Michael Usry was the subject of a police investigation that led to a court order requiring Ancestry.com to disclose the identity of a partial ...
Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986.
The chief said a “firm DNA profile” of James Vanest, at the time Miller's 26-year-old upstairs neighbor, emerged from evidence left from the room. Vanest had been questioned but never identified as a suspect during the initial investigation, which became mired in allegations of potential police misconduct.
Scientists successfully retrieved a DNA profile from this stain. A familial DNA profile was extracted using a technique called Y-STR, but no match was found in the national DNA database. [12] Hubert Hoyles, who saw Drinkwater after buying eggs at her parents' farm, was cleared by the DNA evidence after living under a "cloud of suspicion" for ...
Edward Humes, author of 'The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder,' discusses the implications of forensic genealogy.