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Investigators are hoping for leads as they attempt to identify a man whose body was found in Luce County in 1987.

Ross County -- A decorated WWII veteran will finally be laid to rest in Chillicothe, after his remains have been genetically identified. (Learn more in the previous story, "Remains of Decorated WWII Veteran Finally Identified and to be Laid To Rest in Chillicothe.") Ward Raymond Thomas was a

Special to the Scioto Post Chillicothe & the island of Saipan in the Pacific Ocean -- A decorated WWII veteran who disappeared after he walked away from the Chillicothe VA hospital in 1972 will finally be laid to rest in Chillicothe, after his remains found in 1996 were genetically identified

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Ward Raymond Thomas, aged 54 at the time of his disappearance, vanished from a Veteran’s Medical facility in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1972. It would be 24 years before his skull was located in the Scioto River in the same area.

“The body in Bakersfield was just as creepy as the Black Dahlia,” a law enforcement source says. "There is a reason the FBI has been brought in"

DNA Doe Project stumped by the case of a man found dead in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1987, asks the public to help.

“Little is known about Robin other than she was last seen alive in Vallejo in February 1992. We’re asking the public for any information about Robin’s life in hopes of providing answers about…

On Aug. 8, 1993, two men were hiking along a creek bed in a remote area off of Pine Flat Road in Healdsburg, California, when they discovered the skeletonized remains of a woman. The case went cold when investigators were unable to match the remains to missing persons reports.

The tortuous journey to cracking the mystery of Kaplan’s name involved a “long and hard” multiyear effort by a DNA-focused nonprofit, eight generations of family records and the work of two Jewish genealogists who understood just how thorny it can be, sometimes, to ascertain the identity of an unknown Ashkenazi Jew.

As investigators in Orange County, CA, Lauren Felix and Robert Taft have applied what they’ve learned as part of the University of New Haven’s Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy online graduate certificate program, solving two cold cases and providing the families of the victims with answers after more than four decades.

Investigators identified the body of a woman missing her head and thumbs and drained of blood after more than 12 years through DNA analysis.

It took more than a decade, but authorities have finally learned the identity of a Jane Doe homicide victim in Kern County.

A headless woman whose partially decomposed body was found drained of blood in a Kern County vineyard in 2011 has been identified in a mysterious cold case.

Ada Beth Kaplan has been identified as the woman who was discovered at a grape vineyard on March 29, 2011, officials said.

Officials said the body of a decapitated woman found at the Grapevine Vineyard in Arvin, California, in 2011 has been identified as 64-year-old Ada Beth Kaplan.

TUCSON (KVOA) - There are hundreds of unidentified remains in Pima County.

The body of a man recovered from Lake Washington in 2018 has finally been identified, thanks to years of investigation by forensic scientists and detectives.

Skeletal remains found in a creek bed off Pine Flat Road near Healdsburg more than 30 years ago have now been identified as Robin Fay Hedrick, a Vallejo woman that was last seen alive in 1992, the …

Experts say sometimes African American John and Jane Doe cases take longer to solve. 19 Investigates looked into why this is happening.

In 1975, a body was found floating in the Nation River near Casselman, Ontario, Canada. It would take decades to identify her, and her killer.

More time is needed to assess whether the man accused in the 1975 death and disappearance of Jewell Parchman Langford is fit to stand trial, court heard Tuesday.

New technology is allowing detectives to take DNA evidence from old cases and search for family ties online. But testing that DNA, devoting officers to the case and hiring genealogists to look for clues costs money and not all police forces have the funding.

After Remaining A Jane Doe for Nearly 40 Years, In 2019 Debra Jackson Formally Known Only as “Orange Socks” Got Her Identity Back. Now…

But experts say this risks DNA sovereignty.