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Nearly 45 years after a woman's decomposed remains were found inside a garment bag buried in a shallow grave in Nevada, advanced DNA testing has identified the victim as Florence Charleston, from Ohio.
These open cases date as far back as the 60s.
Donald Michael Santini was arrested on Wednesday June 7, in the 1984 killing of Cynthia Ruth, a 33-year-old woman found strangled in Hillsborough County Florida.
Extended investigations over so-called cold cases with repeat offenders, they develop almost a sort of dialogue with the investigators through their criminal acts. they want to kind of stay -- maintain the attention of the investigators, they want to constantly kind of outdo themselves. it's a real, you know, catch 22 for law enforcement and for investigators. every time they reach out through making contact or communications or engage in another criminal act, you have the opportunity of developing the clue or investigative lead that could lead you to their apprehension. but of course every ti...
But it was the manifesto that really put kaczynski's brother over the threshold and motivated him to contact the fbi and say that he thought he knew about -- he knew who the author was. >> what more if anything can you tell us about the evolution of this criminal profiling that was kind of born at this time? >> so that's become a mainstay of the fbi. as you know, it's frequently captured in lore about the bureau in movies and tv series, things like that. but it's become one of the most relied upon assets in these particularly hard cases, cold cases, you know, bombing campaign like this one, mu...