Ad
related to: oldest dna cases ever solved
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
It is the oldest cold case that Middlesex County law enforcement has ever solved. [2] The DNA evidence has also linked Sumpter to several other unsolved rapes and murders in the Boston area. Jane Britton
In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years. But less than five years ...
The case, which was well known in the Chicago area, was one of the oldest cold case murders in the United States to be presumably solved. Jack McCullough, who under his former name John Tessier had been a neighbor of the Ridulph family, was convicted for her murder in September 2012.
The remained unsolved until 2001, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Brian Lunn Field, a long-time suspect with a history of abusing little boys. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime, which is currently the oldest solved cold case in the United Kingdom. [83] Murdered 3 days 1968 Richard Robison Sr. 42 United States
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.
The cold case killing of a Wisconsin hitchhiker has been solved 50 years later thanks to a DNA breakthrough from evidence pulled from a hat that the accused killer left behind at the scene.
The murder went unsolved for 33 years, until Brian Lunn Field confessed to the crime after DNA evidence surfaced in 2001. [3] It was the oldest cold case to be solved in the United Kingdom until the conviction of David Burgess for the 1966 murder of Yolande Waddington in 2012. [4]
Edward Humes, author of 'The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder,' discusses the implications of forensic genealogy. DNA is solving cold cases everywhere. One ...