If people lived to age 32, I would have had my educational mid-life crisis last year while I was sitting in AP Biology class. For my whole life, I had an aspiration to be a doctor and had enrolled in this class seeing it as something of a stepping-stone to my goal. But then it fell apart. I remember the moment clearly. Our teacher had my undeserving rapt attention as she droned on about the partial diffusion of sodium chloride through the Loop of Henle in the nephron, the operational unit of the kidney. As I looked down at what few items I had scribbled on my paper (a heading for my notes, the notes themselves, replete with sufficient question marks, and a scribbling of what could have been a large dog, or a banana), it occurred to me that I really didn t
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The defense was seeking Monday to cast doubt on the guilt of an Auburn man who is charged with the rape and murder of an Alaskan woman in 1993 by introducing half a dozen alternative suspects.
A judge in the case heard arguments from Lewiston defense attorney James Howaniec in support of a motion allowing him to present evidence to a jury at trial that at least six other men may have been involved somehow in the rape and murder of 20-year-old Sophie Surgie.
Each of those men was viewed by investigators as a person of interest, Howaniec told Fairbanks Alaska Superior Court Judge Thomas Temple on Monday via videoconference.
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DNA expert says she found suspect Steven Downs through profile matching in 1993 Alaska murder case
The murder trial for Steven Downs, an Auburn man accused in a 1993 murder case out of Fairbanks, Alaska, continues.
Steven Downs appears in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn in March 2019 for an extradition hearing.
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A self-described professional genetic genealogist testified Thursday that she was the one who identified an Auburn man as a match for DNA found at the scene of a murdered woman in Alaska more than two decades ago.
CeCe Moore, who has appeared in a television network series called “The Genetic Detective,” said she was working for a DNA testing company as an investigator in 2018 when Alaska State Police submitted DNA evidence discovered in 20-year-old Sophie Sergie, who was found dead in a dormitory bathroom at University of Alaska at Fairbanks on April 25, 1993.