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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 murder of Debra Lee Miller, a case that spent more than 40 years unsolved, has finally been closed after DNA testing allowed officers to pinpoint the culprit Image credits: WKYC Channel 3
The double murder of eight-year-old Mohammed Ammouri and 56-year-old Anna-Lena Svensson occurred on 19 October 2004 in Linköping, Sweden. Both were stabbed to death at Åsgatan in Linköping. The murders remained unsolved and with no suspects for 16 years, until the new method of ancestral DNA analysis was used. In June 2020, a suspect was ...
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.
Mary Elizabeth Quigley (February 28, 1960 – September 10, 1977) was an American murder victim whose death was a cold case for nearly 30 years before it was finally solved. [1] Mary was a senior at Santa Clara High School in California. She had attended a beer party and left late in the evening of Friday, September 9, 1977.
A major factor that enabled the case's eventual resolution was the "careful collection and preservation" by the various policemen involved in the case of items found in the crime scene. [2] In 2014, the Burlington police department sent for DNA analysis all the evidence collected in the crime scene, including the cigarette butt.
Then, in 2013, a match emerged — an unknown male DNA profile Las Vegas police filed in connection with a 1991 cold case involving a female who had been found raped and murdered in her apartment ...
This partnership was initiated in 2018 and had the goal of solving cold cases involving murder and rape. [23] Following scrutiny, FamilyTreeDNA's president Bennett Greenspan apologized for a lack of transparency, stating "I am genuinely sorry for not having handled our communications with you as we should have".