DNA typing and its continuous advances in forensic science and genetics have made these techniques almost foolproof to be applied in various complex cases. Here, we will discuss a murder case where a newlywed woman killed her husband on the first night but concealed it as death due to snake ...
The case was ultimately solved when the daughter of the murderer was placed into the United Kingdom DNA database for a minor crime. A few months later, a familial search identified the offender and resulted in his arrest and conviction. Avon Somerset Chief Constable Andy Marsh s...
For the first time in more than a century, the family of Dorothy Arnold breaks silence to reveal new insights.
Roxanne, dead on the kitchen floor in their home in Niles, Michigan. Detectives sayRoxanne Woodhad been sexually assaulted and her throat slashed. DNA was preserved from the crime scene, but given technological limitations of the time, there wasn't enough evidence to charge any su...
Cold case murder of Berkeley woman at Tilden Park solved after 35 years The cold case murder of a Berkeley woman in Tilden Regional Park has been solved using advanced DNA techniques, authorities announced Wednesday. Feb 19 Watch: Press conference on 1990 cold case murder in Tilden Regional Park...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say they have solved the 50-year-old killing of an Iowa teen but not before the suspect died of old age. Relatives of Maureen Brubaker Farley, whose body was found by two teenage boys in 1971 in a wooded ravine in what is now Tait Cummins Park...
Some theories about what happened that night have pointed the finger at the Ramsey family, but her parents and brother were never charged and formally absolved of any wrongdoing in 2008 after a fresh round of DNA testing. Other explanations involve an unknown intruder. More than 25 years after...
A phony "chewing gum survey" led to the arrest of a man who has been charged with killing a 70-year-old woman in 1976, making the case the oldest cold case to ever be cracked in the state of Maine.
There is growing evidence to support the use of behavioural case linkage by investigative organisations such as the police, but this research is typically limited to samples of solved crime that do not reflect how this procedure is used in real life. The current paper extends previous research ...
Seattle police have solved a murder from 51 years ago with the help of DNA and a family tree. Susan Galvin was a 20-year-old records clerk for the department.