#cold-case-identification

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California
fromLos Angeles Times
2 days ago

Man serving life in prison admits to three cold case murders, police say

Glenn Cox, 39, already serving multiple life sentences, was identified and charged in Long Beach 2004–2007 shootings after confessing to prison staff in December 2023.
#forensic-genealogy
fromIrish Independent
1 month ago

Gardai hope US facial recognition sketch will help identify rail line body

The new appeal is accompanied by a special sketch by a US forensic facial reconstruction artist now central to their new campaign. The woman's skeleton was discovered on January 5, 2021 by workmen clearing sections of the old Midleton-Youghal railway line as part of a greenway development. One theory being examined by detectives is that the woman may have been illegally exhumed from a grave - and then deliberately dumped by the rail line where she lay undiscovered for years.
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US news
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Decades-old mystery solved: Victim of Bay Area-linked serial killer was his own daughter

Genetic genealogy identified the previously unnamed middle child from the Bear Brook murders as Rea Rasmussen, closing a decades-long mystery and prompting further victim searches.
Toronto
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Algonquin Park remains ID'd as Cleveland man missing since 1973 | CBC News

Investigative genetic genealogy identified remains found in Algonquin Park in 1980 as Eric Singer, missing from Cleveland since 1973.
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