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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.
MEQUON, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities in southeastern Wisconsin have identified the remains of a child found in 1959 in a Wisconsin culvert, closing a 65-year-old cold case with the help of genetic ...
An 84-year-old Minnesota man was arrested after new genetic technology linked him to a cold-case murder of a woman in the 1970s. The Dunn County Sheriff's Office in Wisconsin announced in a press ...
Father slit throats of his three daughters (ages 5, 8, and 11) the year after divorce from their mother [11] Steven Zelich: West Allis: 2012–2013: 2: Former police officer known as the "Wisconsin Suitcase Murderer" [12] Ashlee Martinson: Piehl: March 7, 2015: 2: Convicted of murdering her mother and stepfather on the day after her 17th birthday
Peggy Lynn Johnson (formerly known as Racine County Jane Doe), also known by the last name Schroeder, was an American woman whose body was discovered in 1999 in the town of Raymond, Racine County, Wisconsin. [1] She was 23 years old at the time of her death, which had occurred after enduring several weeks of extreme neglect and physical abuse.
Now, around 65 years later, Wisconsin researchers and law enforcement agencies have solved the cold case of Markku Jutila ― born as Chester Breiney ― through genetic genealogy, according to a ...
A year later, Wendy Smith, a friend and former classmate of Hammerberg was found dead. Her death was ruled a homicide while her cause of death was investigated. [5] [6] [10] Hammerberg's murderer was later identified through forensic genealogy to be Philip Cross, a Wisconsin man who died in 2012 of a drug overdose. [4]
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.