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The Mile Marker
May 1973 two New Jersey sisters on a Florida Keys vacation were last seen hitchhiking on Stock Island; the next day their bodies were found in the wo…
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The Night That Waited
Two assaults, decades apart and a thousand miles from each other, sat in evidence rooms until the science caught up. In Lawrence, Kansas, a 2009 stra…
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Forty Years Later: How DNA Closed Jefferson Parish’s Airline Park Rape Spree
In 1986, a masked intruder terrorized East Jefferson homes and vanished. Nearly four decades later, a Georgia inmate already serving life was linked …
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A Drop of Blood, a Plastic Fork, and Fourteen Years
Irasema Chavez was stabbed more than 100 times in her Arlington, Texas, apartment in January 2012. After CODIS produced no hit, FBI investigative gen…
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: The AA Meeting Killer: DNA, a Grave, and Two Murders Sixteen Years Apart
In May 1991, 30-year-old mother Sherrie Bridgewater was raped and strangled in her Las Vegas apartment. Decades later, the same DNA profile tied her …
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A Serial Killer Across Four States: DNA Links Ricky Dawson to a 1992 San Francisco Murder
After more than three decades, San Francisco prosecutors have charged Ricky Dawson in the 1992 rape and strangulation of Nancy Hernandez, a 45-year-o…
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Silent Evidence Awakens: DNA and Persistence Resolve the 1987 Murder of Opal Weil
: In 1987, the murder of 82-year-old Opal Weil in her Pinellas County home left a community in fear and her family searching for answers amid a clust…
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51 Years, a Landfill, and a Pension: How DNA Finally Caught a Killer in Tucson
October 1975, the partial remains of a 73-year-old Tucson man named William Reginald Sipfle were found in a landfill near Ryan Airfield, with no iden…
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Shadows in the Bottling Plant: The Long Road to Justice in the Sun Drop Murders
On a quiet Friday morning in June 2008, an armed intruder entered the Sun Drop Bottling Company in Concord, North Carolina, and brutally murdered off…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Unmasking Bundy: New DNA Evidence Closes a 52-Year-Old Utah Cold Case and Opens Doors to Others
In a groundbreaking forensic breakthrough, advanced DNA technology has definitively linked notorious serial killer Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of 17…
4 months, 4 weeks ago