Category: Case Analysis
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The House Remembered: The Record Behind Our Richard Dabate Documentary
How the arrest-warrant timeline, the interrogation, the 2022 trial and the Connecticut Supreme Court’s 2025 opinion fit together – the sourcing behind Crime Docket’s documentary on the Connie Dabate case.
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IAFIS Fingerprint Match Solves 33-Year-Old Omaha Cold Case
Within five hours of uploading digitized latent prints to the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System IAFIS, the Omaha Police Department’s Cold Case Unit generated a primary suspect profile that had eluded investigators for over
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Fingerprint and DNA Evidence Break Cesar Sayoc Pipe Bomb Case
A single latent fingerprint an invisible friction ridge impression left by sweat and oil recovered from a manila envelope proved to the catalyst in the nationwide 2018 pipe bomb investigation. According to an October 26, 2018, Department of Justice p
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Ballistics and CCTV Solve 2023 Las Vegas Cold Case Murder
Seventy spent cartridge casings recovered from a residential intersection and high-definition hospital surveillance footage provided the forensic foundation that led Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department LVMPD detectives to arrest four men in a 20
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Houston ‘Lovers Lane’ Cold Case Solved Via Forensic Genealogy
Forensic genetic genealogy familial DNA testing has provided the critical link to solve the August 1990 Houston “Lovers’ Lane” murders cold case, resulting in the apprehension of a suspect nearly 36 years after the discovery of the crime scene. By cr
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DNA Match Cracks 1990 Houston Lovers Lane Murders Cold Case
A previously unentered DNA profile extracted from a 1996 sexual assault investigation has matched biological evidence recovered at the 1990 crime scene of the Houston Lovers Lane murders, culminating in the March 25, 2026, arrest of a 64-year-old Neb
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DNA Links Clark Perry Baldwin to 1990s Interstate Serial Murders
A single male DNA profile extracted from a victim’s pantyhose in Tennessee provided the crucial link to two unsolved Wyoming homicides, bridging a 30-year investigative gap and leading to the 2025 conviction of interstate serial killer Clark Perry Ba