Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba refused to give up on a cold case involving the murder of a 14-year-old girl. The chief even visited victim’s mother, Yvonne Pointer, assuring her that authorities weren’t throwing in the towel, Cleveland.com reports. Sure enough, the case broke earlier this year after re-testing old DNA…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was almost 50 years ago when a woman dressed as a nurse snatched a newborn baby from a Chicago hospital. Now the FBI is reopening the case, the Chicago Tribune reports. The boy, named Paul Joseph Fronczak, was taken from Michael Ross Hospital in 1964. Fourteen months later, a boy who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hair samples are one popular way to obtain DNA evidence. But the FBI plans to examine more than 2,000 cases in which hair samples led to a conviction, McClatchy Newspapers reports. The FBI plans to examine more than 2,000 cases from 1985 to 2000. Some of those cases include people awaiting execution…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new federal bill will help some states begin collecting DNA from suspects upon arrest, the Associated Press reports. The money, which will be awarded to select states who apply for a share of the $10 million grants, would be used as start-up funds, the AP wrote. Perhaps no one more than…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Forensic DNA tests are notoriously backlogged. But an increase in staffing and the use of automated technology have contributed to reduce the FBI lab’s backlog by 87% from 2010 to March of this year, the Associated Press reports. The lab and timely tests are incredibly important because DNA evidence taken from crime scenes…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The remains of a suicide bomber in Somalia are being tested by the FBI. Some believe the bomber may be one of at least 21 young Somali-American men that in recent years have left Minneapolis to join al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group, reports the Associated Press. If tests confirm the deceased…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Serial killer Ted Bundy’s DNA profile was uploaded to the FBI’s DNA data base on Friday, opening the way for police investigators around the country to see if Bundy was responsible for any other murders, the New York Times reported. Bundy, who was executed in Florida in 1989, confessed to 30…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Florida authorities are working to add serial killer Ted Bundy’s DNA profile to the FBI’s national database by mid-August, a move that could help detectives in Tacoma, Wash., determine if Bundy was responsible for the abduction of 8-year-old girl Ann Marie Burr in 1961, The News Tribune reported The paper reported…
