Ventura County Sheriff's Office & Medical Examiner's Office Team with Othram to Identify a 1985 Jane Doe After nearly 40 years, a woman whose partial remains were discovered in a plastic bag near Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California, has [...]
Detective Lorie Howard made a promise years ago to identify Grace Doe and to find her killer. That promise was fulfilled on March 21, 2024 when the McDonald County Sheriff's Office (Missouri) declared the decades-old case closed. McDonald County Sheriff [...]
A suspect was arrested Thursday in the 1997 killing of a bank teller during a robbery in Thousand Oaks, after advances in DNA science led to new analysis of evidence left at the scene. Kevin Ray James, 55, of San [...]
From Forensic Magazine: Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters announced the indictment of Ralph Howell for the rape and murder of Cheryl Thompson in 1978. Howell was killed in an automobile accident in 1985, but was posthumously indicted for one [...]
The full history of the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Years before the 2010 discovery of one set of human remains at Oak Beach in Suffolk County, 10 people fell victim to suspected homicide. Multiple females, one male, and a toddler [...]
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science’s Human Forensic Biology Subcommittee, with contributions from the Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods (SWGDAM), has developed a Human Forensic DNA Analysis Process Map that captures details about the various procedures, [...]