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Kruzof mystery deepens as skeletal remains prove modern Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Apr 26, 2021 The skeletal bones were found about 500 yards inland from Shoals Point, on Kruzof Island, where many things drift, blow, or are otherwise carried ashore from the open Pacific. Officials are now looking for a DNA match in the FBI’s CODIS database. (Shorezone image/NOAA) Human skeletal remains found on Kruzof Island near Sitka in April of 2020 are modern, but not especially recent.  A DNA samp...

I always will remember the head. About 25 years ago I walked into the barracks at Troop A on West Saile Drive, there to interview members of the Forensic Identification Unit. These were the guys they sent out whenever there was a murder in the vast nine-county region that is Troop A. A crack team of investigators. I barely recall the interview or the subsequent story that I wrote. The vivid memory I do have of that day is seeing the head. It sat on a filing cabinet, a model of a young womanâ€...

Thought to be the first Egyptian mummy to reach Northern Ireland, according to The University of Manchester “there is a rich history of testing Takabuti since she was first unwrapped in Belfast in 1835,” as part of the mummy trade that followed the Napoleonic Wars. The hieroglyphs on her painted coffin provided experts with several clues as to her identity, namely that she was called Takabuti, lived in Thebes and was the wife or mistress of a noble. Takabuti is now housed at Ulster Museum...

KEYT SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - The Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office says it is reopening a 45-year-old homicide cold case. On Tuesday the sheriffs office announced detectives were investigating the death of 16-year-old Paul Ornelas who was found dead in the Goleta area nearly 45 years ago. Ornelas body was found near the railroad track at the Turnpike Road overpass on June 21, 1975. His death was quickly ruled a homicide, but after several years of investigation, the case went cold wi...

Where are Mexicos disappeared? Many have been in government graves all along Kate Linthicum, Maya Averbuch © (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Unidentified bodies are buried in a mass grave in Tijuana in 2018. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) After hearing that her 44-year-old son had been murdered in downtown Tijuana, Guadalupe Aragón Sosa went searching for him. She gave police a sample of her DNA, but they said they found no hits when they checked it against a databa...

Updated: February 19, 2021, 6:30 pm © University of Dundee Work on a Dundee University project which could create 280 new jobs has been given the official go-ahead. The Tay Cities Biomedical Cluster project, led by the university in partnership with NHS Tayside, was signed off by the Tay Cities Region Joint Committee on Friday. The project, which has received initial funding of £25 million as part of the Tay Cities Deal, will help the post Covid-19 recovery through the development of new medi...

Global Banking & Finance Review Human Identification Market Size Estimation, COVID-19 Impact and Future Trends By 2029 | FMI Report with Expert Review Advertisement Published 2 months ago The global market for human identification has been projected to register a CAGR of 6% throughout the forecast period 2017 to 2022, according to Future Market Insights’ (FMI) recently published report. The global human identification market is estimated to account for more than US$ 1,000 Mn reven...

20-20 on Jan. 8 featured Rodney James Alcala, known as "The Dating Game Killer," and started with the story of his killing a Texas woman in 1977. Alcala was known as "The Dating Game Killer" because he appeared as a contestant of the popular television show in 1978, was charged and convicted of murdering two women in New York crimes in 2012 and given a lengthy prison sentence before being returned to California where he is on death row for murders committed in that state. He also murdered S...

20-20 on Jan. 8 featured Rodney James Alcala, known as "The Dating Game Killer," on a recent show and started with the story of his killing a Texas woman in 1977. Alcala was known as "The Dating Game Killer" because he appeared as a contestant of the popular television show in 1978, was charged and convicted of murdering two women in New York crimes in 2012 and given a lengthy prison sentence before being returned to California where he is on death row for murders committed in that state. He...

Woman who drowned in Texas in 1966 identified as Kansan January 19, 2021 GMT PECOS, Texas. (AP) — Police in western Texas have identified a girl who drowned in a hotel pool in 1966 as a 17-year-old native of Kansas. Jolaine Hemmy, of Salina, Kansas, drowned on July 5, 1966 at the Ropers Motel in Pecos, police said Tuesday. She was staying with a man at the hotel when her body was found. The man, who police did not identify, was in the couple’s room when she drowned but left while emergency...