Nearly three decades after her death, a murder victim whose partially decomposed body turned up in a brushy ravine in eastern San Diego County has been identified. DNA testing has confirmed that the remains discovered in an open area off the 1300 block of Avocado Avenue in El Cajon on Aug. 13, 1998, were those …
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DNA Solves 1985 Arlington Cold Case Highlighted at State of the City
A decades-old Arlington murder case has been solved thanks to advances in DNA technology and the persistence of detectives who never gave up. Nearly 40 years after 26-year-old Terri McAdams was found beaten to death in her Arlington apartment, police identified her killer in 2024 through investigative genetic genealogy — a breakthrough featured during Mayor …
Epp and the Jesup unveil Creating Acadia National Park Research Archive
After more than a decade of preparation, a digital collection of 30,000 primary documents related to the creation of Acadia National Park is now available to the public through the History Trust as the Creating Acadia National Park Research Archive. The Jesup Memorial Library is grateful to Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. for undertaking the Herculean …