More than 245 years after the Maryland teen died on a bloody South Carolina battlefield, a tiny piece of his skull was used to extract his DNA and uncover his identity.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is proud to announce the expansion of the Texas Rangers’ Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program, a specialized unit dedicated to solving cold case murders and sexual assaults across the state.
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The laboratories will receive upgraded equipment and workstations, and forensic tool software maintenance and support.
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Authorities in the Permian Basin (Texas) have now identified the man they believe violently raped a 49-year-old woman in a mall parking lot in Midland almost 30 years ago.
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The funding will help departments address staffing shortages, provide training, and purchase equipment to increase DNA processing capacity.
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Last week, cold case detectives from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department attended the exhumation of 1969 homicide victim Nora Kathylene “Kathy” Jones.
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Weathers is employed as a forensic chemist with the Illinois State Police Division of Forensic Services, where he has worked since 1998.
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Officers have found new evidence that has resulted in a sexual predator being jailed for offences he committed almost 30 years ago.
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Evidence, originally collected in 1986, was submitted for further examination with improved modern testing; these tests located DNA of an unknown male.
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Analysis of Historic St. Mary’s City highlights the power of combining ancient DNA, archaeology, and genealogy to restore lost identities and track the migrations of America's earliest English colonists and their descendants.
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