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It really irks me that he lived a normal life for so long.
DNA Solves Cold Cases/Parabon Nanolabs & GED/Match.
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CHISHOLM, Minn. — Authorities have arrested a suspect in a 34-year-old unsolved Iron Range homicide after using public genealogy databases to find the Chisholm man.
Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 52, was taken into custody Wednesday and booked into the St. Louis County Jail in Virginia on probable cause of second-degree murder in the 1986 killing of Nancy Daugherty, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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Daugherty, 38, was last seen alive just after midnight on July 16, 1986. Later that afternoon, Chisholm police officers conducted a welfare check and found her dead inside her home. The mother of two children had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Evidence at the scene indicated that a struggle had occurred both outside and inside the home. Witnesses later reported hearing a woman screaming in the early morning hours.
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Earlier this year, the Chisholm Police Department approached the BCA about providing a DNA sample to Parabon, a company that analyzes public genealogy databases and helps law enforcement programs identify case leads. The BCA laboratory coordinated with the company to provide a DNA sample from the decades-old evidence. Based on their analysis and search, Parabon identified Carbo as a potential suspect in the case in July.
BCA agents and Chisholm investigators began surveillance of Carbo last week and surreptitiously obtained DNA evidence that was sent to the BCA’s laboratory for analysis. On Monday, the BCA laboratory reported a DNA match to the bodily fluids found on the victim and at the scene.
Wednesday morning, investigators obtained a DNA sample directly from Carbo with his consent. The BCA laboratory tested the known DNA sample, providing confirmation later in the afternoon of a DNA match.
Public genealogy data leads to arrest in unsolved 1986 slaying of Iron Range woman – Twin Cities
Quotes from Nancy's husband and daughter at link.
Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 52, was taken into custody Wednesday and booked into the St. Louis County Jail in Virginia on probable cause of second-degree murder in the 1986 killing of Nancy Daugherty, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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Daugherty, 38, was last seen alive just after midnight on July 16, 1986. Later that afternoon, Chisholm police officers conducted a welfare check and found her dead inside her home. The mother of two children had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Evidence at the scene indicated that a struggle had occurred both outside and inside the home. Witnesses later reported hearing a woman screaming in the early morning hours.
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Earlier this year, the Chisholm Police Department approached the BCA about providing a DNA sample to Parabon, a company that analyzes public genealogy databases and helps law enforcement programs identify case leads. The BCA laboratory coordinated with the company to provide a DNA sample from the decades-old evidence. Based on their analysis and search, Parabon identified Carbo as a potential suspect in the case in July.
BCA agents and Chisholm investigators began surveillance of Carbo last week and surreptitiously obtained DNA evidence that was sent to the BCA’s laboratory for analysis. On Monday, the BCA laboratory reported a DNA match to the bodily fluids found on the victim and at the scene.
Wednesday morning, investigators obtained a DNA sample directly from Carbo with his consent. The BCA laboratory tested the known DNA sample, providing confirmation later in the afternoon of a DNA match.
Public genealogy data leads to arrest in unsolved 1986 slaying of Iron Range woman – Twin Cities
Quotes from Nancy's husband and daughter at link.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California woman has been arrested in the death of her newborn baby boy in the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago in a case that was solved decades later because of genetic genealogy, authorities said Monday.
Lesa Lopez, 52, admitted to investigators she was the mother of the baby and implicated herself in the killing, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said in a statement.
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Last year, investigators again took up the case with the help of experts in forensic genetic genealogy from the FBI, and private labs, including Oklahoma-based DNA solutions and Gene-by-Gene’, which owns the genealogy website FamilyTreeDNA.
After extensive genealogy research, surveillance and DNA collected from Lopez’s discarded trash, cold case investigators linked Lopez to the crime scene, Kelly said.
Mother arrested in her baby's 1988 killing thanks to DNA
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RED WING, Minn. — The Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office will look to use DNA analysis to help solve the deaths of three newborns found in the Mississippi River at three separate locations spanning nearly a decade. And it’s asking for the public to help make it happen.
The sheriff’s office has committed $5,000 to fund genetic genealogy analysis of the first body, that of a baby girl found in the water in 1999 by a fisherman near Red Wing, Minn., according to a news release Monday, Aug. 3.
Minnesota sheriff raising funds for family DNA analysis in unsolved newborn deaths | Grand Forks Herald
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MN - Red Wing and Old Frontenac - Baby Boy and Baby Girl Doe. He was found Dec'03, and she was Nov'99
The sheriff’s office has committed $5,000 to fund genetic genealogy analysis of the first body, that of a baby girl found in the water in 1999 by a fisherman near Red Wing, Minn., according to a news release Monday, Aug. 3.
Minnesota sheriff raising funds for family DNA analysis in unsolved newborn deaths | Grand Forks Herald
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MN - Red Wing and Old Frontenac - Baby Boy and Baby Girl Doe. He was found Dec'03, and she was Nov'99
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Arrest Made in 1991 Sexual Assault Cold Case
August 5, 2020
By Jason McClimans
Approximately twenty-nine years after a young woman was sexually assaulted in Chandler, a suspect has been arrested after DNA evidence links him to the scene.
On November 8, 1991, just after 10:00 p.m. a female was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted at an apartment complex near Dobson and Frye Roads. A composite sketch was released, evidence was collected, and witnesses interviewed; however, no suspects were identified, and the case went cold.
A composite sketch of sexual assault suspect and photograph of suspect from the 1990’s.
Arrest Made in 1991 Sexual Assault Cold Case – Chandler Police Department
Investigators say they used investigative genetic genealogy techniques, which resulted in a list of possible leads, and Young's name was on the list.
Police officials say detectives surveilled Young in July 2020.
"Through investigative techniques, police collected Young's DNA, sending it to the state lab, where his DNA was linked to the 1991 Chandler sexual assault," read a portion of the statement.
Police: 'Investigative genetic genealogy' results in arrest in 1991 cold case sexual assault in Chandler
August 5, 2020
By Jason McClimans
Approximately twenty-nine years after a young woman was sexually assaulted in Chandler, a suspect has been arrested after DNA evidence links him to the scene.
On November 8, 1991, just after 10:00 p.m. a female was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted at an apartment complex near Dobson and Frye Roads. A composite sketch was released, evidence was collected, and witnesses interviewed; however, no suspects were identified, and the case went cold.
A composite sketch of sexual assault suspect and photograph of suspect from the 1990’s.
Arrest Made in 1991 Sexual Assault Cold Case – Chandler Police Department
Investigators say they used investigative genetic genealogy techniques, which resulted in a list of possible leads, and Young's name was on the list.
Police officials say detectives surveilled Young in July 2020.
"Through investigative techniques, police collected Young's DNA, sending it to the state lab, where his DNA was linked to the 1991 Chandler sexual assault," read a portion of the statement.
Police: 'Investigative genetic genealogy' results in arrest in 1991 cold case sexual assault in Chandler
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Wow, that sketch was super close! Glad they got this guy off the streets to pay for his crimes.Arrest Made in 1991 Sexual Assault Cold Case
August 5, 2020
By Jason McClimans
Approximately twenty-nine years after a young woman was sexually assaulted in Chandler, a suspect has been arrested after DNA evidence links him to the scene.
On November 8, 1991, just after 10:00 p.m. a female was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted at an apartment complex near Dobson and Frye Roads. A composite sketch was released, evidence was collected, and witnesses interviewed; however, no suspects were identified, and the case went cold.
A composite sketch of sexual assault suspect and photograph of suspect from the 1990’s.
Arrest Made in 1991 Sexual Assault Cold Case – Chandler Police Department
Investigators say they used investigative genetic genealogy techniques, which resulted in a list of possible leads, and Young's name was on the list.
Police officials say detectives surveilled Young in July 2020.
"Through investigative techniques, police collected Young's DNA, sending it to the state lab, where his DNA was linked to the 1991 Chandler sexual assault," read a portion of the statement.
Police: 'Investigative genetic genealogy' results in arrest in 1991 cold case sexual assault in Chandler
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Parabon Nanolabs has received permit from the New York Department of Health (NYS DoH) to employ its DNA Analysis technology and services to help LE agencies in New York state solve cases, both cold and active! It is the first permit issued by NYS DoH for use of genetic genealogy and other DNA technologies for forensic investigations in New York state.
Parabon Receives First Permit Granted in New York for Advanced DNA Analysis
Parabon Receives First Permit Granted in New York for Advanced DNA Analysis
Great news! This is such a big deal. So many unsolved cases in NY that could benefit. The Long Island Serial Killer investigation was able to id one of the victims recently, but I think that was b/c the FBI was involved & they didn't need the permit for genetic genealogy. Immediately thought of the Alphabet murders as a potential case:
NY - NY - The Alphabet Killings, Rochester
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Early on a May morning in 1996, a Sitka teenager named Jessica Baggen set out to walk home from her own birthday celebration, a distance of a mile. She had just turned 17.
Baggen never showed up at home, leaving her parents frantic. A few days later, her body was found just off a bike path along Sitka’s Sawmill Creek Road, according to news reports from the time. Her remains had been hastily buried in a hollow beneath a fallen tree. Police said the teenager had been raped and strangled.
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On Tuesday, the Alaska Department of Public Safety announced it had solved Baggen’s case using an emerging technique called genetic genealogy that has yielded charges in two other Alaska cold case homicides in the past year and a half. Evidence pointed toward a man named Steve Branch, 66, who had lived in Sitka but had moved a decade ago to a small town in Arkansas.
When cold case investigators traveled there to confront him and ask for a DNA sample last week, he killed himself, according to the Department of Public Safety. An autopsy confirmed his DNA was linked to Baggen’s body, said David Hanson of the Alaska State Troopers Tuesday.
Suspect in 1996 cold-case murder of Sitka girl killed himself last week in Arkansas, troopers say
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AK - AK - Jessica Baggen, 17, Sitka, 4 May 1996
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She's gonna walk the streets again in 2/3 years...unfortunately...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California woman has been arrested in the death of her newborn baby boy in the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago in a case that was solved decades later because of genetic genealogy, authorities said Monday.
Lesa Lopez, 52, admitted to investigators she was the mother of the baby and implicated herself in the killing, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said in a statement.
[...]
Last year, investigators again took up the case with the help of experts in forensic genetic genealogy from the FBI, and private labs, including Oklahoma-based DNA solutions and Gene-by-Gene’, which owns the genealogy website FamilyTreeDNA.
After extensive genealogy research, surveillance and DNA collected from Lopez’s discarded trash, cold case investigators linked Lopez to the crime scene, Kelly said.
Mother arrested in her baby's 1988 killing thanks to DNA
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GREENSBURG, Ind. — A Greensburg man accused in seven home invasion sexual assaults in the 1980s spent most of the 1990s in an Indiana prison for a similar crime.
Stephen Ray Hessler is a convicted felon now facing new charges going back 38 years, starting when he was 19 years old.
The Shelby County prosecutor credits advanced DNA and genetic genealogy testing for identifying Hessler, 57, as the suspect in the serial cold case.
Parabon NanoLabs analyzed DNA evidence from a 1985 home invasion in which a husband was beaten with a gun and suffered permanent brain damage and physical disabilities. The man's wife was sexually assaulted in the garage of the home.
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...investigators secretly obtained a DNA sample from an envelope with a check enclosed that Hessler mailed to pay his Greensburg utility bill. A DNA match from the mailing was made to the 1985 evidence, leaving a trillion-to-one chance of it being someone else.
Hessler was arrested at his Greensburg home Monday. He faces 24 felony criminal charges with 10 victims for home invasion sexual assaults from 1982-85.
In 1988, Hessler was charged with abducting a woman in the middle of the night from her Greensburg home while her husband was at work and her children were asleep. Hessler forced the woman at gunpoint to walk through alleys to his house, where he allegedly raped her. It's the same house where he was arrested Monday on the new charges.
Convicted felon Stephen Ray Hessler now faces new charges. | wthr.com
Stephen Ray Hessler is a convicted felon now facing new charges going back 38 years, starting when he was 19 years old.
The Shelby County prosecutor credits advanced DNA and genetic genealogy testing for identifying Hessler, 57, as the suspect in the serial cold case.
Parabon NanoLabs analyzed DNA evidence from a 1985 home invasion in which a husband was beaten with a gun and suffered permanent brain damage and physical disabilities. The man's wife was sexually assaulted in the garage of the home.
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...investigators secretly obtained a DNA sample from an envelope with a check enclosed that Hessler mailed to pay his Greensburg utility bill. A DNA match from the mailing was made to the 1985 evidence, leaving a trillion-to-one chance of it being someone else.
Hessler was arrested at his Greensburg home Monday. He faces 24 felony criminal charges with 10 victims for home invasion sexual assaults from 1982-85.
In 1988, Hessler was charged with abducting a woman in the middle of the night from her Greensburg home while her husband was at work and her children were asleep. Hessler forced the woman at gunpoint to walk through alleys to his house, where he allegedly raped her. It's the same house where he was arrested Monday on the new charges.
Convicted felon Stephen Ray Hessler now faces new charges. | wthr.com
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Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot announced that a suspect has been arrested in connection with the aggravated sexual assault of a Dallas woman in 1985.
The Dallas County District Attorney's Office, in collaboration with the Dallas Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested 74-year-old David Thomas Hawkins at his home in Keene, Texas early Thursday morning.
Authorities said DNA evidence links Hawkins to three other aggravated sexual assaults in Dallas and two aggravated sexual assaults in Shreveport, Louisiana between 1980 and 1985.
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The survivor of the 1985 sexual assault contacted Dallas police and requested that her case be reopened. Through DNA testing, it was discovered that the suspect in the four Dallas cases and the two Shreveport cases, all form 1980 to 1985, matched the same person.
Police said the suspect remained unidentified until Hawkins' DNA was subjected to genealogical research and analysis.
Suspected Serial Rapist Arrested and Returned to Dallas in 35-Year-Old Cold Case
The Dallas County District Attorney's Office, in collaboration with the Dallas Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested 74-year-old David Thomas Hawkins at his home in Keene, Texas early Thursday morning.
Authorities said DNA evidence links Hawkins to three other aggravated sexual assaults in Dallas and two aggravated sexual assaults in Shreveport, Louisiana between 1980 and 1985.
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The survivor of the 1985 sexual assault contacted Dallas police and requested that her case be reopened. Through DNA testing, it was discovered that the suspect in the four Dallas cases and the two Shreveport cases, all form 1980 to 1985, matched the same person.
Police said the suspect remained unidentified until Hawkins' DNA was subjected to genealogical research and analysis.
Suspected Serial Rapist Arrested and Returned to Dallas in 35-Year-Old Cold Case
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DNA Testing of inmate for sex assaults resulted in charges for an unrelated cold case murder.
Andy Castillo, 57 Arrested, murder of Cynthia Palacio,Texas & stalking real estate agents.
Andy Castillo, 57 Arrested, murder of Cynthia Palacio,Texas & stalking real estate agents.
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There were several identifications with the help of forensic genealogy during a very short span of time recently, and I see this thread wasn't updated so I'll just post the former John and Jane Doe's WS threads here. There are several links in each thread to explore.
Chesterfield County Jane Doe from 1986 has been identified as Christy Lynn Floyd.
Identified! - VA - Shoosmith Landfill, WhtFem UP6642, 20-35, w/ Richmond trash, Aug'86 - Christy Lynn Floyd
Rainbow Falls Jane Doe from 1993 has been identified as Rebecka "Becky" Ann Redecker.
Identified! - CO - Douglas Co., WhtFem 154UFCO, 13-20, Hwy 67 near Horse Creek, Jun'93 - Rebecca Ann Redeker
Little Muddy River John Doe from 1982 has been identified as Phillip Peterson.
Identified! - ND - WhtMale, UP70567, 30-40, wrist tattoo "sex", Little Muddy River, 22 Jun 1982 - Phillip Peterson
Lake Stickney John Doe from 1994 has been identified as Rodney Peter Johnson.
Identified! - WA - Everett, Male UP2137, 35-75, Lake Stickney, June '94 - Rodney Peter Johnson
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I would also like to add 'Miss Molly' from 1986 who was identified as Robin Ann Green, although this was not solved through forensic genealogy, but through a DNA hit in CODIS provided by her children after 'Miss Molly's' DNA was submitted last year.
Identified! - KS - Salina, 'Miss Molly' 184UFKS, 25-30, in creek under I-70 bridge, Jan'86 - Robin Ann Green
Chesterfield County Jane Doe from 1986 has been identified as Christy Lynn Floyd.
Identified! - VA - Shoosmith Landfill, WhtFem UP6642, 20-35, w/ Richmond trash, Aug'86 - Christy Lynn Floyd
Rainbow Falls Jane Doe from 1993 has been identified as Rebecka "Becky" Ann Redecker.
Identified! - CO - Douglas Co., WhtFem 154UFCO, 13-20, Hwy 67 near Horse Creek, Jun'93 - Rebecca Ann Redeker
Little Muddy River John Doe from 1982 has been identified as Phillip Peterson.
Identified! - ND - WhtMale, UP70567, 30-40, wrist tattoo "sex", Little Muddy River, 22 Jun 1982 - Phillip Peterson
Lake Stickney John Doe from 1994 has been identified as Rodney Peter Johnson.
Identified! - WA - Everett, Male UP2137, 35-75, Lake Stickney, June '94 - Rodney Peter Johnson
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I would also like to add 'Miss Molly' from 1986 who was identified as Robin Ann Green, although this was not solved through forensic genealogy, but through a DNA hit in CODIS provided by her children after 'Miss Molly's' DNA was submitted last year.
Identified! - KS - Salina, 'Miss Molly' 184UFKS, 25-30, in creek under I-70 bridge, Jan'86 - Robin Ann Green
Familial DNA leads to arrest in 35-year-old murder of Rochester teen
''For 35 years, Marlene Jerome worked with different Rochester police investigators, witnessing their commitment as they tried to find the man who raped and fatally beat her 14-year-old daughter on Thanksgiving Day of 1984.
This week, in what is the first Monroe County criminal case to use "familial DNA," police arrested a Florida man and charged him with second-degree murder in the homicide of Wendy Jerome, whose body was found in an alcove of Schools 33 and 11 near Webster Avenue. Timothy Williams, now 56, lived in the same neighborhood in Rochester in 1984.''
Ws thread..
NY - NY - Wendy Jerome, 14, Rochester, 22 Nov 1984
''For 35 years, Marlene Jerome worked with different Rochester police investigators, witnessing their commitment as they tried to find the man who raped and fatally beat her 14-year-old daughter on Thanksgiving Day of 1984.
This week, in what is the first Monroe County criminal case to use "familial DNA," police arrested a Florida man and charged him with second-degree murder in the homicide of Wendy Jerome, whose body was found in an alcove of Schools 33 and 11 near Webster Avenue. Timothy Williams, now 56, lived in the same neighborhood in Rochester in 1984.''
Ws thread..
NY - NY - Wendy Jerome, 14, Rochester, 22 Nov 1984
By April 2018, 12 states had legislation to allow familial DNA in investigations. Bio sample has to meet specific criteria to be eligible for use.
“Arizona... California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming... have solved cold cases using familial DNA matching. Illinois and Louisiana are currently pondering whether to use the technique.”
Familial DNA testing puts elusive killers behind bars. But only 12 states use it.
Any of the other 38 states allow this yet? Can’t find a list more current. TIA
“Arizona... California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming... have solved cold cases using familial DNA matching. Illinois and Louisiana are currently pondering whether to use the technique.”
Familial DNA testing puts elusive killers behind bars. But only 12 states use it.
Any of the other 38 states allow this yet? Can’t find a list more current. TIA
The trail in this case is going on, it will be interesting to see if the man will end up in jail, or in forensic psychiatric care. He obviously suffers from a psychiatric disorder, and most likely did so when the murders happened, but is the disorder seriously enough to render psychiatric care instead of a jail sentence. He haven't done any other crimes during the 16 years since the murders.
Sweden: man goes on trial for 2004 murder after DNA matched to genealogy site
I still remember the day the murders happened, I worked at the emergency department in Linköping at the time, and I got to work at 4 p.m., and as I hadn't checked the news that day I took my bicycle to work as usual, and passed just some hundred meters from the murder scene (not visible from the bicycle lane). When I got to work it was eerily quiet at work, and everything was subdued. I finished working at 2 a.m., and that night was one of very few times I took a taxi home, as the perpetrator was at large (and continued to be so for 16 years).
According to the opening sequence for the 2017 A&E show “Cold Case Files”, there are over 120,000 unsolved murders in the USA. Historically, only 1% of cold cases ever get solved. I wonder how much that 1% number has improved since familial DNA has exploded onto the scene. Or what the percentage will become as this technique becomes a widespread standard procedure. So excited about this; this is my favorite thread on WS.
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You got stuck watching Cold Case earlier on A&E too? Wish they did more episodes in that newer format and brought it back. I wondered the same thing.