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The homicide team continued to investigate the case for decades after Gonzalez’s death. The team uploaded a semen sample from the crime scene into the Combined DNA Index System but there weren ...
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.
Robert Duboise, 18 at the time, was wrongfully arrested for the murder of 19-year-old Barbara Grams, a 19-year-old who was raped and found beaten to death behind a dental office in Tampa in 1983.
The chief said the department considers the case closed and hopes identifying Miller's killer will bring her family some closure. Butler said his great-uncle was one of the first officers on the scene of Miller's killing in 1981. He said he feels fortunate to get the chance to solve a homicide that happened when he was just 10 years old.
The murder went unsolved for nearly 58 years, until it was announced by authorities in 2022 that the perpetrator had been identified as James Paul Forte using investigative genetic genealogy. It is believed to be the oldest cold case in Pennsylvania to be solved through this method.
Her murder remained unsolved for 48 years and was considered a high-profile case in Quebec. [1] [3] A break in the case occurred in June 2022, when DNA evidence was identified on a man's T-shirt. DNA testing matched Franklin Maywood Romine, who had died in 1982. Romine's body was exhumed from a West Virginia Cemetery for further DNA testing. [4]
"Little did I know," she said with a chuckle -- cutting to how a year later a detective from the Michigan State Police called her at work, scaring her that she could be in trouble.
The case remained open and was routinely reviewed as a cold case by the cold case unit of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's and Sheriff's Office. [9] In 2018, however, Crawford was definitively linked to the murder following a more advanced DNA test. [10]