How Kentucky is identifying crime victims and suspects through their family trees
Kentucky law enforcement agencies are increasingly using forensic genealogy to identify crime victims and suspects.
Kentucky cold cases: 9 bodies, 2 killers identified using DNA, family trees
Kentucky officials have several identified homicide victims and suspects by matching their DNA to potential relatives.
DNA brings Florida murder victim back to her Arkansas family 40 years later
"Who was Judy Doe?" That question had haunted sheriff's investigators in Lake County, Fla., since a body was discovered there in 1984. The answer, officials announced on Jan. 29, was Rebecca Sue Hill, ...
Boston Police, FBI identify 1991 murder victim as Toussaint Gonsalves
The BPD says Toussaint Gonsalves was born on Oct. 2, 1970. When he was stabbed to death in late 1991, at age 21, he was 5-foot-11 and 225 pounds, with short cropped hair and brown eyes. Police ...
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Double Does: Two separate Jane Doe cases, one investigator trying to give the women their names back
This episode of Arizona Crime Uncovered follows the story of two Jane Does who were both found dead in Mohave County decades ago.
Victim identified in 1991 unsolved homicide in Boston
Police found the man on Dec. 4, 1991, in the Boston Harbor near Thompson Island. An autopsy performed by the at the time ruled his death a homicide. After 33 years, the victim was identified as ...
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Lake County Sheriff's Office identifies woman's remains after 40 years
ALTOONA — Lake County Sheriff's Office detectives have determined the identity of the young woman whose remains were found ...
Unsolved homicide victim identified after 33 years using genetic genealogy
The victim of a 1991 homicide has been identified as Toussaint Gonsalves using investigative genetic genealogy, police said.
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Calaveras Cold Case Task Force identifies ‘new’ victim of Wilseyville serial killers
A team of experts using modern DNA and forensic science to give a name to victims of violent crime positively identified and linked a man last seen in 1985 to a notorious local crime scene. The ...
Body found stabbed in Boston Harbor in 1991 identified by genealogy
Three decades ago, the body of an unknown man with a stab wound was found in Boston Harbor. Genetic genealogy helped police ...
Florida teenage cold case victim identified 40 years later, deputies say
After 40 years, deputies said they have identified a Florida cold case victim who would have been a teenager when she went ...
Las Vegas man, ID’d by genetic genealogy, charged in 1989 Everett killing
Advances in DNA technology in the past three decades led Everett police to a Las Vegas man who was Maryann Daniels' neighbor when she was killed in 1989.