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fromThe Mercury News
2 weeks ago
California

DNA testing solves decades-long mystery of missing Bay Area woman

Advanced genealogical DNA testing identified a skull found in 2013 as Velma Louise Silvia Lee, a Napa woman born in 1936.
fromwww.pressdemocrat.com
2 weeks ago
California

DNA testing solves decades-long mystery of missing Bay Area woman

Advanced genealogical DNA testing identified 1936-born Velma Louise Silvia Lee as the woman whose skeletal remains were found near Redding in 2013.
fromIrish Independent
3 weeks 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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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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