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May 9 2023
Currently, there are more than 330,000 unsolved murders in the U.S., according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report data. Cold cases, some decades old are being cracked in Houston because of technology at Othram, a first-of-its-kind lab in the world that was purposefully built to identify...
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''HOUSTON – Currently, there are more than 330,000 unsolved murders in the U.S.,
according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report data.
Cold cases, some decades old are being cracked in Houston because of technology at
Othram, a first-of-its-kind lab in the world that was purposefully built to identify perpetrators or victims from crime scenes. The technology is capable of testing evidence with degraded or trace amounts of DNA.
Kristen Mittelman, is chief development officer at Othram. “We bring the truth that is missing. Most forensics testing prior to this technology was code testing and you heard of a few cases solving here or there across the country. ‘Why weren’t all the cases solving?’ And the reason is that DNA from crime scenes is very, very different than the DNA that you would get if you went to the doctor’s office today, or if you took a consumer test.”
This was the precise purpose of why Kristen and her husband David, built Othram in 2018. Then, a team of four people started solving unsolved mysteries immediately. First, it was a few hits a month, then several answers a week, and now, the lab is solving multiple cases a day with more than 50 people at its headquarters in the woodlands.''
“We have returned investigative leads in more than 1000 cases, there’s 150 publicly announced cases you can find on
DNAsolves.com.” Mittelman explained. “Honestly, it was a dream. It was a dream to be able to make the world a little bit safer, a little bit better. To bring closure to these families and piece them back together. To really create technology that would hopefully become a deterrent for crime.”
''The family is interested in getting the case over to Othram. They say they’re looking into the case.
At the time this article was published, evidence in Fran Ivey’s case continues to sit in the cold case files at HPD.''
Ws Thread for this case referenced in the article..
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