After a year in which Memorial Day observances largely were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, services again are scheduled across the region on Sunday and Monday.
Man found guilty in 1984 slaying of Minnesota naval recruit in Florida
Thomas Garner, 61, of Jacksonville, was convicted May 6 by a 12-member jury and sentenced to life in prison for strangling U.S. Navy recruit Pamela Cahanes, 25, and dumping her body in an overgrown Seminole County lot.
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Mary Divine / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 12:10 pm, May 18, 2021 ×
ST. PAUL Pamela Cahanes’ siblings waited 37 years for justice for their sister.
They got it earlier this month in a courtroom in Seminole County, Fla., when a jury found a 61-year-old dental hygienist guilty of first-degree murder for beating and strangling of a Stillwater-area woman in 1984.
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Inside America s cold case revolution: new super effective DNA-matching technique prompts privacy concerns
Investigators are using whole-genome sequencing to search popular ancestry sites with great success, but critics have warned it is unethical
10 May 2021 • 6:00am
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California. The new technique has helped overturn wrongful convictions and solve cold cases
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Convicted killer Ledell Lee protested his innocence up until his death in 2017 by lethal injection at an Arkansas county prison.
Lee was accused of strangling and fatally bludgeoning a 26-year-old woman in 1993, but his prints were never found on the murder weapon and testimony putting him at the scene was later discovered to have been flawed.