The technique can predict a person’s ancestry and physical traits without the need for a match with an existing sample in a database.
Tag: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
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Body Found in Indiana Is Identified After 30 Years
Advances in DNA technology helped the authorities to identify remains found near a highway in 1992 as those of Margaret Ann Sniegowski Jr., who had disappeared from her home in Ohio.
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‘I-65 Killer’ Who Terrorized Motel Clerks in the 1980s Is Identified
The authorities said they connected Harry Edward Greenwell, who died in 2013, to at least three murders in Kentucky and Indiana, using genetic genealogy.
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Man Sentenced to 650 Years in Prison in Brutal 1980s Sex Crimes
DNA on an envelope helped to seal the fate of Steven Ray Hessler, who prosecutors said violently assaulted seven women, a 16-year-old girl and two men in Shelby County, Ind., from 1982 to 1985.
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Philanthropists Push Police Searches of DNA Databases
When the police can’t afford to solve cold cases, deep-pocketed donors can.