The Laramie County Sheriff s Office has partnered with Othram the first private laboratory built to apply the power of modern parallel sequencing to forensic evidence in hopes of identifying a homicide victim known for 33 years as Baby John Doe. We re hoping to raise a total of $5,000 for the laboratory to do their examination of the evidence that s been submitted, said Deputy Jeff Barnes. We re kind of hoping this will give us some additional leads to go on and open this cold case.
In February of 1988, a couple that had gone out for a walk discovered the body of a newborn baby boy wrapped in a blanket and lying in a culvert near Happy Jack Road and McKinney Drive.
Dr Nicole Ramlachan
While the T&T Police Service is still depending on lineups or ID parades since in some cases it is all that is available, with the addition of the DNA Database, DNA evidence has become critical for cross-referencing. This would allow for any case with related DNA evidence to be substantiated with scientific identification and analyses. Although legislation has been in place for years, including provision for testing by private and public labs, the wheels of justice have been slow to turn to utilise these critical tools for crime-fighting locally.
The result: T&T’s abysmal crime detection rate.
Family of Wendy Stephens finds closure 38 years later, thanks to improvements in forensic genealogy
After nearly four decades, a Denver family finally has some answers about what happened to Wendy Stephens.
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DENVER â After nearly four decades, a Denver family finally has some answers about what happened to Wendy Stephens.
Stephens was just 14 years old when she disappeared in 1983 in Denver; the teenâs parents had filed a missing personâs report, but police were unable to track the teen down.
The teenâs body was found a year after her disappearance in Washington and was linked to the Green River killer, but investigators were unable to identify it.