Investigators in Mohave County used forensic genetic genealogy to identify the victim of a homicide from back in the early 1970's. MORE ⬇️
"It's a sense of peace and a sense of justice when we can identify them and give them a name," says Lori Miller, investigator with the Mohave County Sheriff's Office SIO.She was the victim of a homicide that dates back 52 years in Northwestern Arizona. Before now, all the authorities had were her remains.
The Mohave County Sheriff's Office tells us the 39-year-old woman was found dead in a canvass sack in 1971. She was left in the desert, near Highway 93. I"Basically, the only thing that they had as far as identification was through fingerprints. So, her fingerprints were attempted, but she was in an advanced state of decay," says Miller.They worked with an artist who created a sketch of what the woman might have looked like.
"We use this new technology that allows us to build these more comprehensive DNA profiles, and then upload them to genealogical databases consented for law enforcement use. Then, we use those databases to get really distant relatives," says Dr. Kristen Mittelman, chief development officer at Othram. "When we first started, we couldn't work with burnt remains, we couldn't work with chemically treated remains...even contamination, but now we can because we ran enough mock cases, and we figured it out. So, there's always hope for these cases," says Mittelman.
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