A man who kidnapped and raped a teenage woman a quarter century ago, Mark Thompson, now 66, was brought to justice and sentenced to 130 years-to-life in state prison after his DNA was identified using a genealogical program. San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan last week reported that defendant Thompson, 66, was sentenced to …
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Man Sentenced for Kidnapping, Rape 25 Years Ago, ID’d Through Genealogical DNA
A man who kidnapped and raped a teenage woman a quarter century ago, Mark Thompson, now 66, was brought to justice and sentenced to 130 years-to-life in state prison after his DNA was identified using a genealogical program. San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan last week reported that defendant Thompson, 66, was sentenced to …
Decades Worth of Fall River, Massachusetts Newspapers Are Now Free Online
Digging into the city’s history — and your own — has become incredibly easy thanks to the Fall River Public Library’s initiative to digitize its collection of newspaper microfilm. The library’s reference department has been quietly uploading decades worth of Herald News pages online — complete copies of every page, every story, every ad, with all the text searchable. In the …