DNA Doe Project - General Discussion #2

[djanga]

Just wondering if the DDP will take more Colorado cases, as they solved 2 of their Colorado cases.

Solved as per the listing on Search - UnidentifiedPersonsBureau (see screenshot below) - hopefully there'll be an update soon! Interesting as his top match on the spreadsheet is not that close. Maybe it was FTDNA that solved it, or it was matched to a missing person.

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Good news! Waiting on the press release on this solve and Mercer Island’s JD (WA) solve from the last month.

 

[doggybag2355]

It looks like New Brighton Jane Doe was fully funded and is in the testing phase now

 

[doggybag2355]

An update on case funding from the rest of them:

Franklin Co. John Doe (2006) is at 80%, Tempe Girl is around 60%, Pima County Jane Doe is at 80%, Freeborn Co. John Doe is at 40%, Rock Co. John Doe is at 50% and Dane County Doe is actually listed as a donation case now as well.

 

[ntt1]

An interesting academic article based on data from 17 DDP cases in May 2020:

A New Strategy to Speed Up Cold Case Investigations

www.gsb.stanford.edu

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1556-4029.15127

 

[ntt1]

Hopefully this one is also on their radar for Minnesota cases.

3363UMMN

That one might be very difficult since he had died in a fire. IIRC there’s no DNA on file for him right now

This case now appears on their fundraising page, though not on the website yet! (caution PM photo at NAMUS link)

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

https://.com/@dnadoeproject/john-doe-up-12123-ramsey-county-mn

 

[doggybag2355]

This has been discussed in Othram’s thread but Alachua County John Doe was identified: After 43 years, Alachua John Doe (1979) is Identified

 

[ntt1]

Ms Startex is now listed as a fund case. Likely for another round of extraction/sequencing to create another kit?

 

[JovanSrna]

They completely removed the entry for Alachua County John Doe (1979) from their website. Swimsuit Boy appeared to me as the featured pending case, even though someone else is working on that case by all accounts. Still, I'm happy to see one of their older cases resolved. It has become harder to keep track of the new ones with some counties requesting lots of cases.

 

[doggybag2355]

They completely removed the entry for Alachua County John Doe (1979) from their website. Swimsuit Boy appeared to me as the featured pending case, even though someone else is working on that case by all accounts. Still, I'm happy to see one of their older cases resolved. It has become harder to keep track of the new ones with some counties requesting lots of cases.

I wonder if they'll put up a gray solve page for them. It's not like Othram is a "rival" company so to say, the DDP does forensic genealogy while Othram typically does the testing and other companies or the PD does genealogy work.

 

[djanga]

No post still about the new Minnesota donation case, neither abount other new/active cases. It looks like they are busy preparing for the conference and there will be updates when it is over

 

[doggybag2355]

Wayne County JD as well as the other cases that were meant to be moved are now listed as active on the site.

 

[doggybag2355]

Wayne County JD as well as the other cases that were meant to be moved are now listed as active on the site.

Also interesting tidbit that has been added to Healdsburg Jane Doe's page:

" This case spent considerable time in the laboratory pipeline. It was ready to research just in time to be assigned to our latest cohort of interns from the University of New Haven’s Graduate Certificate Program in Forensic Genetic Genealogy. "

 

[doggybag2355]

Does anyone know why Ramsey County Jane Doe was removed from the site?

 

[djanga]

May be I missed it, but was their an update that Wayne County Jane Doe (Indiana) is now in active research?

 

[doggybag2355]

May be I missed it, but was their an update that Wayne County Jane Doe (Indiana) is now in active research?

She is according to the site, but nothing has been announced yet.

 

[ntt1]

Does anyone know why Ramsey County Jane Doe was removed from the site?

From FB: "That case is still in our pipeline - there was some confusion on our end that resulted in the case being listed on the website prematurely."

Also, another new case -

Suzanne Jane Doe 1994 - DNA Doe Project

Description: On September 15, 1994, the skeletonized remains of a white woman were located off Interstate 10 in Holt, Florida. The woman is believed to have been between 36-45 years old, 5’6” and 110 pounds. She had brown hair that appeared bleached. She wore floral jacket with sequins on the...

dnadoeproject.org

 

[djanga]

From FB: "That case is still in our pipeline - there was some confusion on our end that resulted in the case being listed on the website prematurely."

Also, another new case -

Suzanne Jane Doe 1994 - DNA Doe Project

Description: On September 15, 1994, the skeletonized remains of a white woman were located off Interstate 10 in Holt, Florida. The woman is believed to have been between 36-45 years old, 5’6” and 110 pounds. She had brown hair that appeared bleached. She wore floral jacket with sequins on the...

dnadoeproject.org

A bit strange, looks like updates returned to the stage they were this spring! Hopefully we hear more updates soon

 

[doggybag2355]

A bit strange, looks like updates returned to the stage they were this spring! Hopefully we hear more updates soon

On the spreadsheet?

 

[djanga]

On the spreadsheet?

No, no the spreadsheet is good, I mean synchronization of cases on the websites and their announcements. It is a bit confusing with all new pending cases -which of them are active and which are still pending.

 

[djanga]

St Tammany Parish John Doe’s Namus was removed and marked as identified.