AUSTIN (KXAN) — Wednesday night, the Senate passed House Bill 1399, a bill allowing law enforcement to collect DNA samples of people they arrest for violent crimes like murder, rape, and assault.
Daily Archives: May 24, 2019
Texas Senate approves DNA collection on violent arrests
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Posted in Database, DNA Legislation
Duluth Police: All backlog sexual assault kits tested, investigations ongoing
DULUTH, MN– Around this time last year, the Duluth Police Department was in over their heads.
Duluth was being called the worst city in the state when it came to efficiently testing sexual assault kits with hundreds of kits, some dating back to 1993.
Now, more than a year later, the department has submitted all of its kits and we’re learning the results of the testing.
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Posted in Backlogs, Cold Cases, Database
Mass Funeral for Victims of Bosnia’s Koricanske Stijene Killings
According to the Missing Persons Institute, during the last exhumation conducted in the Koricanske Stijene area in 2017, a total of 135 people’s remains were exhumed and more than 1,000 samples sent for DNA.
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Posted in Ancestry