Thirty-six years and ten days, that’s how long Rodney Lincoln was in prison before his sentence was commuted for a crime he still says he never committed.
Daily Archives: July 31, 2018
After three decades in prison, man welcomed home after sentence commuted
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Posted in Innocence Project
Police probing whether suspect in NYC murder killed others
Officials are using DNA testing to determine whether Drayton’s DNA turns up in forensic evidence collected from any unsolved homicides.
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Posted in Cold Cases
The perfectly-preserved skeleton and the body hanging from a purple scarf
Australia- Forensic specialists have shed light on two mysterious cases they have never been able to solve – one involving an almost perfectly preserved skeleton and another body found hanging from a purple scarf as a noose.
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Posted in Cold Cases
Canada using DNA, ancestry websites to investigate migrants
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian immigration officials are using DNA testing and ancestry websites to try to establish the nationality of migrants, the Canada Border Services Agency said on Friday.
CBSA spokesman Jayden Robertson said the agency uses DNA testing to determine identity of “longer-term detainees” when other techniques have been exhausted.
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Posted in Ancestry
VFW urges families of MIA servicemembers to provide DNA samples
WASHINGTON (KCTV) -The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is asking the families of those who went missing during the Korean and Cold Wars to submit DNA in the hopes of identifying the remains North Korea turned over to the U.S. recently.
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Posted in Mass Disaster, Missing Persons
Judge Halts All DNA Testing in the Capital Murder of Eric Torrez for All 5 Defendants
Judge Weatherby allowed attorneys for all the defendants to address the court. At issue is that of the 50 or so pieces of physical evidence needing to be tested, some 8 to 10 of those pieces don’t have enough material to test more than once and attorneys for each of the five defendants said they wanted to conduct separate testing on the evidence.
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Posted in Current Cases