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JCSO Public Relations Officer / Monday, June 28, 2021
/ Categories: Press Releases
Oregon's Oldest Unidentified Person Case Solved
Case 63-23011

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – The concealed body of a young boy was discovered in the mountains east of Ashland, Ore. Roy E. Rogers, 65, of Rogue River, Ore. found the boy’s body while fishing in the Keene Creek Reservoir along Highway 66 on the evening of July 11. The unidentified two-year old boy was wrapped in multiple layers of blankets, bound with wire, and weighted down with iron molds to keep his body hidden. The year was 1963. The young boy’s identity has remained a mystery since that evening. Until now.

Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) took over the case in 1963, and through the ensuing 58 years more than 23 JCSO Sheriff’s, detectives, and deputies worked the case with assistance from Oregon State Police (OSP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

After the case went cold in August of ‘63 the files were archived for nearly 45 years. In 2007, JCSO Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan, uncovered eleven paper boxes marked “old Sheriff cases.” Sgt. Fagan asked special investigator Jim Tattersal to sort through them for follow up. It was during that investigation Tattersal discovered the Keene Creek case. In August 2008, the tiny body was exhumed from his resting place at Hillcrest Memorial Park cemetery and a DNA sample was taken. This lead also went cold when the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) returned no matches. In 2010, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) created a composite image using the extracted DNA, free-of-charge.

The case’s big break came in December 2020 when JCSO received a Facebook Messenger tip on the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office – Oregon Facebook page. JCSO Sheriff Nate Sickler then tasked deputy Medical Examiner (ME) detective Christian Adams with continuing the investigation. Adams, working alongside OSP’s Human Identification Program Coordinator, Dr. Nici Vance, submitted a biological sample of the unidentified child to Parabon NanoLabs to generate investigative leads through DNA Phenotyping and Genetic Genealogy.

At this point in the investigation, Cece Moore, Chief Genetic Genealogist with Parabon NanoLabs, searched the open-source DNA repository GEDMatch, and found two potential siblings of the unidentified child. An interview with a DNA-confirmed maternal half-brother in Ohio revealed that he had a young sibling with down syndrome born in New Mexico who went missing. Upon further investigation a birth certificate was uncovered, and after 58 years the Keene Creek baby Doe had a name: Stevie Crawford, born 10-2-1960.

Through the years, many people were instrumental in assisting to identify Stevie, often providing their time and efforts free-of-charge. Some of these people include: Hillcrest Memorial Park cemetery’s Jed Ramey, who donated the work for the 2008 exhumation. East Main Dental Center (Medford) Dr. Gregory Pearson and Dr. Hal Borg, donated time and services for the dental identification which revealed congenital defects. University of Oregon Forensic Anthropologist, Dr. Jeanne Mclaughlin, donated her time and efforts to skeletonize the remains for analysis and DNA extraction. Lastly, the JCSO detectives who logged many unpaid hours in attempting to identify Stevie, including Sgt. Colin Fagan, detective Tim Pike, and special investigator Jim Tattersal.

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Oregon's Oldest Unidentified Person Case Solved
 
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JCSO Public Relations Officer / Monday, June 28, 2021
/ Categories: Press Releases
Oregon's Oldest Unidentified Person Case Solved
Case 63-23011

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – The concealed body of a young boy was discovered in the mountains east of Ashland, Ore. Roy E. Rogers, 65, of Rogue River, Ore. found the boy’s body while fishing in the Keene Creek Reservoir along Highway 66 on the evening of July 11. The unidentified two-year old boy was wrapped in multiple layers of blankets, bound with wire, and weighted down with iron molds to keep his body hidden. The year was 1963. The young boy’s identity has remained a mystery since that evening. Until now.

Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) took over the case in 1963, and through the ensuing 58 years more than 23 JCSO Sheriff’s, detectives, and deputies worked the case with assistance from Oregon State Police (OSP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

After the case went cold in August of ‘63 the files were archived for nearly 45 years. In 2007, JCSO Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan, uncovered eleven paper boxes marked “old Sheriff cases.” Sgt. Fagan asked special investigator Jim Tattersal to sort through them for follow up. It was during that investigation Tattersal discovered the Keene Creek case. In August 2008, the tiny body was exhumed from his resting place at Hillcrest Memorial Park cemetery and a DNA sample was taken. This lead also went cold when the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) returned no matches. In 2010, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) created a composite image using the extracted DNA, free-of-charge.

The case’s big break came in December 2020 when JCSO received a Facebook Messenger tip on the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office – Oregon Facebook page. JCSO Sheriff Nate Sickler then tasked deputy Medical Examiner (ME) detective Christian Adams with continuing the investigation. Adams, working alongside OSP’s Human Identification Program Coordinator, Dr. Nici Vance, submitted a biological sample of the unidentified child to Parabon NanoLabs to generate investigative leads through DNA Phenotyping and Genetic Genealogy.

At this point in the investigation, Cece Moore, Chief Genetic Genealogist with Parabon NanoLabs, searched the open-source DNA repository GEDMatch, and found two potential siblings of the unidentified child. An interview with a DNA-confirmed maternal half-brother in Ohio revealed that he had a young sibling with down syndrome born in New Mexico who went missing. Upon further investigation a birth certificate was uncovered, and after 58 years the Keene Creek baby Doe had a name: Stevie Crawford, born 10-2-1960.

Through the years, many people were instrumental in assisting to identify Stevie, often providing their time and efforts free-of-charge. Some of these people include: Hillcrest Memorial Park cemetery’s Jed Ramey, who donated the work for the 2008 exhumation. East Main Dental Center (Medford) Dr. Gregory Pearson and Dr. Hal Borg, donated time and services for the dental identification which revealed congenital defects. University of Oregon Forensic Anthropologist, Dr. Jeanne Mclaughlin, donated her time and efforts to skeletonize the remains for analysis and DNA extraction. Lastly, the JCSO detectives who logged many unpaid hours in attempting to identify Stevie, including Sgt. Colin Fagan, detective Tim Pike, and special investigator Jim Tattersal.

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Oregon's Oldest Unidentified Person Case Solved
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RIP, Little Stevie.
 
 
Gina20 said:
It's been a busy year for cold cases solved by DNA advancements.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-sexual-assault-thomas-craig-brodie-1.6096110

Police solve 13-year-old murder

In both of these cases, the accused were young at the time of these crimes. Some other recent cases in the same province, also solved by DNA advancements:

Man charged in Edmonton historic child attempted murder, abduction, sex assault case | Edmonton Journal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-cold-case-sexual-assault-dna-1.5783922

DNA leads to charges of sexual assault against 66-year-old man after 1981 parkade attack | Edmonton Journal
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This unidentified murdered man has been named, thanks to DNA advancements. This is Othram's work.

Identified! - Canada - Tofield, AB, 'Septic Tank Sam' Ntv/WhtMale 1046UMAB, Apr'77 *Gordon Edwin Sanderson, 27*
 
Mrs. Badcrumble said:
Swedish LE has enlisted the services of Parabon Nanolabs to solve the 2005 murder of Marie Johansson.
Nya bilden i jakten på Maries misstänkta mördare

Translated from link:

"- We have nothing to lose on this, says criminal commissioner Peter Thylén and continues:

- We saw that this company in the US can create a phantom image on a DNA and as they write they have a number of solved murders that they think they have helped with in the USA.

(...)

Peter Thylén says that they are the first in Sweden to get help with this technology. It has cost $ 4,000.

- If you think about preliminary investigation costs, this is nothing. For example, if you see what we have to pay to the telephone companies to retrieve telephone/mobile data, it is a very low cost."

Här är nya fantombilden på misstänkte mördaren – 13 år efter mordet på Marie

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Any updates on this one? I gave it a try, but nothing recent turns up.
 
Not humans, but murdered trees..
rbbm.
Trees' DNA used to prove theft of prized lumber from Washington state forest | Toronto Sun
July 12 2021
''The blazing fire that tore through Washington state’s Olympic National Forest in 2018 scorched 3,300 acres of land and destroyed dozens of valuable bigleaf maple trees.
Amid the wreckage were oversized stumps with sawed off limbs — a signal that the flames could have been a devastating casualty of a poorly planned tree heist.''

''During Wilke’s six-day trial earlier this month, prosecutors presented evidence from Richard Cronn, a research geneticist for the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service, who proved that the lumber Wilke sold was a genetic match to the remains of three vandalized bigleaf maples in the national forest.''

“The DNA analysis was so precise that it found the probability of the match being coincidental was approximately one in one undecillion” (one followed by 36 zeros), prosecutors said''.
 
Legally Bland said:
Maryland and Montana have new laws limiting GG investigations, but thankfully they don't seem too restrictive.
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New laws in Maryland and Montana are the first in the nation to restrict law enforcement’s use of genetic genealogy, the DNA matching technique that in 2018 identified the Golden State Killer, in an effort to ensure the genetic privacy of the accused and their relatives.

Beginning on Oct. 1, investigators working on Maryland cases will need a judge’s signoff before using the method, in which a “profile” of thousands of DNA markers from a crime scene is uploaded to genealogy websites to find relatives of the culprit. The new law, sponsored by Democratic lawmakers, also dictates that the technique be used only for serious crimes, such as murder and sexual assault. And it states that investigators may only use websites with strict policies around user consent.

Montana’s new law, sponsored by a Republican, is narrower, requiring that government investigators obtain a search warrant before using a consumer DNA database, unless the consumer has waived the right to privacy.

The laws “demonstrate that people across the political spectrum find law enforcement use of consumer genetic data chilling, concerning and privacy-invasive,” said Natalie Ram, a law professor at the University of Maryland who championed the Maryland law. “I hope to see more states embrace robust regulation of this law enforcement technique in the future.”

Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method
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Do you have a National missing persons DNA registry?

National Missing Persons DNA Program | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

A Family’s Guide to the National Missing Persons DNA Program | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

How a grieving mother helped create a DNA database to identify Canada's missing - Macleans.ca
 
Press Release: Investigative Genetic Genealogy Solves 1976 Rape, Murder of 19-year-old Garden Grove Nursing Student

The 1976 rape and murder of a 19-year-old Garden Grove nursing student has been solved by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Garden Grove Police Department through the use of investigative genetic genealogy.

Terry Dean Hawkins has been identified as the person responsible for the rape and murder of 19-year-old Janet Stallcup who was on her way to a party on December 19, 1976. Stallcup never made it to the party. Her body was found eight days later inside her car about 2 ½ miles from her apartment.

Hawkins died in the Orange County Jail in 1977 without ever being identified as the suspect in Stallcup’s murder, but generations of Garden Grove police officers never gave up on the cold case.

In 2002, the Orange County Crime Lab obtained a single source male DNA profile from swabs taken from the crime scene. Unfortunately, the profile never matched with any other profile in the CODIS database.

In 2020, the Garden Grove Police Department asked the District Attorney’s Office to open an investigative genetic genealogy investigation into the Stallcup rape and murder. That investigation, which included DNA testing of biological tissue from Hawkins’ autopsy, ultimately led to Hawkins being identified as the perpetrator. The United States Marshal Service was instrumental in identifying this suspect

Members of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Garden Grove Police Department recently met with the Stallcup family to inform them investigative genetic genealogy had finally solved Janet’s murder.

“We know who killed Janet Stallcup because generations of law enforcement officers refused to give up on finding her killer,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “Advances in technology and DNA is breathing life back into cases that have grown cold over the years. Justice that had been evasive for decades is now at our fingertips hidden away in DNA. Loved ones who have spent years wondering if they will ever have the peace of mind of knowing who killed their daughter, their sister, their friend, now know who is responsible. I want to thank the Garden Grove Police Department and the Science and Technology Unit at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for their never-ending dedication to the pursuit of justice.”

"Advances in DNA technology have not only assisted in identifying Janet Stallcup’s murderer, but have become a valuable tool for law enforcement. This case would not have been solved without the determination of our detective unit and the support from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office Science and Technology Unit,” said Garden Grove Police Chief Tom DaRé. “We are thankful that through our partnership, we are finally able to bring closure to Janet Stallcup’s family and loved ones."
 
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office just announced a 1999 cold case rape in Cleveland has been solved, thanks to an identification of the suspect made through DNA technology.

Bart Mercurio, 50, was charged with one count of Rape, one count of Kidnapping and one count of Aggravated Burglary.

The case was solved by the office’s G.O.L.D. Unit-- Genetic Operations Linking DNA.

This is a break in one of CCPO’s 20 “Most Wanted” profiles including serial offenders and stranger sexual assaults.

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A 33-year-old woman left her house to go for a walk in Tremont on May 6, 1999, the prosecutor’s office said.

When she got home, prosecutors said Mercurio was waiting for her inside and grabbed her, striking her several times until she lost consciousness.

They said he sexually assaulted her and ran away.

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The G.O.L.D. Unit contracted with Gene By Gene for a pilot project.

The project included genealogical searches for 20 DNA profiles connected to cold case sexual assaults, including the DNA profile for “John Doe #133.”

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Investigators obtained Mercurio’s DNA, sent it to BCI to be tested and tests confirmed that the DNA in the victim’s rape kit matched.

DNA genealogy testing leads to break in decades-old cold case rape in Cleveland
 
For nearly 20 years, Dwight Arthur Harris has kept a “violent secret,” detectives say.

In 2002, a woman told Orlando police she was outside her apartment when a man ran toward her and put a blue towel over her face, before dragging her to the woods nearby. The man, who was wearing a floppy hat that masked his eyes, raped the woman multiple times and told her, “If you don’t yell, I won’t kill you,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement obtained a DNA profile from the suspect and linked him to a similar rape that happened earlier in 2002: A woman told Orange County deputies that a stranger had dragged her into the woods near her apartment and sexually battered her, the affidavit said


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Law enforcement officials said they were able to identify Harris after submitting the unknown DNA to Parabon NanoLabs. The private company generates a profile for law enforcement of a suspect’s phenotypes, like hair color, eye color and ethnic origin, said Lee Massie, special agent in charge of FDLE’s Orlando Regional Operations Center.

Orlando police arrest man linked by DNA to 2 rape cold cases
 
Legally Bland said:
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office just announced a 1999 cold case rape in Cleveland has been solved, thanks to an identification of the suspect made through DNA technology.

Bart Mercurio, 50, was charged with one count of Rape, one count of Kidnapping and one count of Aggravated Burglary.

The case was solved by the office’s G.O.L.D. Unit-- Genetic Operations Linking DNA.

This is a break in one of CCPO’s 20 “Most Wanted” profiles including serial offenders and stranger sexual assaults.

...

A 33-year-old woman left her house to go for a walk in Tremont on May 6, 1999, the prosecutor’s office said.

When she got home, prosecutors said Mercurio was waiting for her inside and grabbed her, striking her several times until she lost consciousness.

They said he sexually assaulted her and ran away.

...

The G.O.L.D. Unit contracted with Gene By Gene for a pilot project.

The project included genealogical searches for 20 DNA profiles connected to cold case sexual assaults, including the DNA profile for “John Doe #133.”

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Investigators obtained Mercurio’s DNA, sent it to BCI to be tested and tests confirmed that the DNA in the victim’s rape kit matched.

DNA genealogy testing leads to break in decades-old cold case rape in Cleveland
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"Rape kits from across Ohio went untested from 1993 to 2011"
How sad. I hope they all get solved! You can't hide anymore.
 
Great work by @othram, thank you for everything that you do!

Press Release: A 32-Year-Old Homicide Cold Case Solved Using Technology

On June 1, 1989, 14-year old Stephanie Isaacson left her home at about 6 a.m. and headed to school. When she did not come home that afternoon, she was reported missing and her body was located late that evening in an empty field near Stewart and Nellis. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

LVMPD received a donation from Justin Woo, a Las Vegas resident, on November of 2020 to work on homicide cold cases with minimal DNA. On January 19, 2021, Stephanie’s case was selected, and the suspect sample was sent to Othram labs.

On July 12, 2021, Othram Labs advised that with less than 120 picograms of DNA, less than 15 human cells, they were able to identify a suspect through a testing procedure called genome sequencing. Through genealogical research the suspect was identified as Darren R. Marchand, a Las Vegas area resident who committed suicide in 1995.

Marchand had been previously arrested in connection to the murder of Nanette Vanderburg in 1986 but the case was dismissed. Marchand’s DNA from the case involving Nanette was compared to the DNA located in Stephanie’s case and it was a match.

LVMPD Homicide Cold Case detectives are constantly reviewing cases, looking at advancements in technology, or reviewing tips in order to identify individuals responsible for taking another person’s life. LVMPD Homicide wants all victim’s families to know they will never stop investigating.

The LVMPD was able to conduct this testing due to a generous donation towards cold case homicides with minimal DNA. If anyone would like to donate towards this cause, they can do so by going to The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation and designating the donation to the “Homicide Cold Case.”
 
faithx said:
Great work by @othram, thank you for everything that you do!

Press Release: A 32-Year-Old Homicide Cold Case Solved Using Technology

On June 1, 1989, 14-year old Stephanie Isaacson left her home at about 6 a.m. and headed to school. When she did not come home that afternoon, she was reported missing and her body was located late that evening in an empty field near Stewart and Nellis. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

LVMPD received a donation from Justin Woo, a Las Vegas resident, on November of 2020 to work on homicide cold cases with minimal DNA. On January 19, 2021, Stephanie’s case was selected, and the suspect sample was sent to Othram labs.

On July 12, 2021, Othram Labs advised that with less than 120 picograms of DNA, less than 15 human cells, they were able to identify a suspect through a testing procedure called genome sequencing. Through genealogical research the suspect was identified as Darren R. Marchand, a Las Vegas area resident who committed suicide in 1995.

Marchand had been previously arrested in connection to the murder of Nanette Vanderburg in 1986 but the case was dismissed. Marchand’s DNA from the case involving Nanette was compared to the DNA located in Stephanie’s case and it was a match.

LVMPD Homicide Cold Case detectives are constantly reviewing cases, looking at advancements in technology, or reviewing tips in order to identify individuals responsible for taking another person’s life. LVMPD Homicide wants all victim’s families to know they will never stop investigating.

The LVMPD was able to conduct this testing due to a generous donation towards cold case homicides with minimal DNA. If anyone would like to donate towards this cause, they can do so by going to The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation and designating the donation to the “Homicide Cold Case.”
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This case sets a new record-minimum for how much DNA is needed for FGG.
 
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