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Familial DNA could identify victims through their family members. Could the issue be cold hard cash? Author: Michael Doudna Updated: 10:23 PM MST May 7, 2021
PHOENIX There are an estimated 40,000 unidentified remains throughout the United States. Those people could be the victims of murders, accidents or suicides. Bodies found and lives lost.
Those unidentified people can create problems for law enforcement, especially if you are trying to solve a murder case.
“Where does the victim fall in this? I think they really end up off by the wayside,” Brian Tozer, a detective with the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, said.
The reality is that if officers don’t know the victim, it makes solving a potential homicide incredibly difficult.
CEDAR CITY The Iron County Attorney s Office has filed charges in a nearly 17-year-old cold case rape investigation in Cedar City.
The big break in the case came when police in Arizona used familial DNA testing to identify a possible suspect in a rape case in Flagstaff that investigators believed was committed by the same man nine months earlier.
David Louis Slade, 59, of Eager, Arizona, was charged Monday in 5th District Court with rape and attempted forcible sodomy, both first-degree felonies; two counts of forcible sexual abuse and burglary, both second-degree felonies.
On July 9, 2004, a woman was in her apartment when her boyfriend left for work about 6 a.m., according to the charging documents. Shortly after, she heard a noise at her bedroom door and thought it was her boyfriend. But when she got to the door, it was someone else who forced his way in, the charges state.
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The Northern Arizona University Police Department has dropped the “interim tags” and named Melissa Freshour police chief and Brad Mihalik deputy chief. Both have been serving their roles in an “interim” basis for the last six months since former police chief Kelli Smith resigned and moved to Florida. Freshour has been employed at NAU for over 20 years. She has worked her way through the ranks from Officer to Sergeant, Detective to Lieutenant. Mihalik has been employed with NAUPD since 2005. he has worked his way through the ranks from Officer to Lieutenant. Freshour and Mihalik have a long history of serving together as Freshour was Mihalik’s supervisor when they began their law enforcement careers as detention officers for the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office.