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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Using advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy, David Michael Resnik is now identified, half a century after his remains were discovered in Pima County, Arizona.
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On Aug. 16, 1983, workers conducting trenching along the southwest side of a building in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona unearthed a human cranium, a collection of non-human bones, and a time capsule.
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Late last week, the DNA Doe Project identified two Jane Does: a young woman whose remains were discovered buried in a vacant lot in 1989, and a woman washed ashore in Arizona in 2015.
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On June 3, 1992, a farmer working in a field along Christman Road in Windsor Township discovered a human skull lying atop freshly turned soil.
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Last week, detectives assigned to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit arrested a sexual battery suspect from a 1998 cold case.
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In January 1984, the body of an unidentified woman was discovered at a landfill. Investigators determined that the woman had died before being transported, but despite extensive efforts, her identity remained unknown.
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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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After 33 years, forensic genetic genealogy has led the Madison County Sheriff’s Office (Illinois) to a suspect in the 1993 murder of Randy Gail Black-Sperino, a 34-year-old mother.
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Twenty-eight years after Saco’s murder, evidentiary items collected and preserved at the crime scene were submitted for testing with Identifinders International.
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