Investigators have identified the killer of a Norton Shores, Michigan woman whose body was found on a Georgia interstate in 1988, marking the first time in the nation that both a victim and killer of a case were both identified using genealogy, they say. In short, one DNA sample from the scene of the crime …
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Months After Genealogy IDs Victim as Michigan Woman, Her Killer Was Identified in the Same Way
Investigators have identified the killer of a Norton Shores, Michigan woman whose body was found on a Georgia interstate in 1988, marking the first time in the nation that both a victim and killer of a case were both identified using genealogy, they say. In short, one DNA sample from the scene of the crime …
Saving the World’s Synagogues from Destruction
From an article by Lawrence Goodman published in the Brandeis.edu web site: In 1827, in response to a czarist decree, kidnappers began abducting Jewish men from their homes for conscription into the Russian army. Many were boys, some as young as 12, whisked away to military boarding homes, trained as soldiers and then forced to …