Police: DNA links inmate to deaths of 12 women
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Two Los Angeles cold case homicide detectives used DNA test results to link an imprisoned rapist to the deaths of at least 12 women between 1987 and 1998, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton told reporters Saturday.
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Prosecutors seeking to link a series of killings to one man presented evidence Saturday that the victims had all apparently been raped and had bruises on their hands as if they had tried to fight off their attacker.
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SOMERVILLE, Mass.  - A mother's deathbed  confession led police on Thursday to a dead body in a storage  locker freezer, and officials said the corpse may be that of  the woman's husband whom she murdered more than a decade ago.
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A former pizza deliveryman now serving a prison term for rape was charged Thursday with murdering 10 women whose deaths were allegedly linked to him through DNA evidence.
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The DNA of a man accused of murdering an 11-year-old child in 1975 matched that found on her body, a court hears.
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Human bones and other remains were unearthed Friday at sites where a former concrete worker told authorities he buried four of eight women he had killed, prosecutors said.
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The DNA of a man accused of murdering five women was found on the bodies of three of the victims, a court hears.
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A new round of DNA testing on bone fragments recovered from the World Trade Center site has identified the remains of a 34-year-old woman who was on the airplane that crashed into the north tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Animal DNA is being used as hard evidence in a growing number of "CSI"-type cases to catch criminals of all stripes, from killers to cattle rustlers.
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State lawyers have agreed to allow DNA testing of dog hair that was used to convict Wayne Williams, who has been blamed for the murders of two dozen children and young men in the late 1970s and early '80s.
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A prison parolee and sex offender was identified as the man suspected of killing five women in the city in a little more than a month, and he could face charges in a sixth death from 2004, authorities said Friday.
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A woman accused in the grisly slaying of a pregnant friend and suspected in the killings of the friend's three young children lost custody of her own daughters for a time several years ago, newly released court records show.
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Texas death row inmate Frances Newton, 39, smiles during an interview at the Mountain View Unit near Gatesville, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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Investigators have linked the slaying of a North Carolina hiker and disappearance of her husband to a man charged with killing a hiker in Georgia, and are looking into whether he could be tied to the disappearance of another North Carolina hiker, authorities said Wednesday.
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The prosecution said it had found contamination in DNA &quot;control&quot; samples intended to guarantee that testing was accurate.
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Some of the six suspects accused in the imprisonment and torture of a young black woman have extensive criminal histories, West Virginia court records show.
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Saliva from a trash basket where an ex-convict spat contained DNA that matched skin cells from a T-shirt worn by a man accused of raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student, prosecutors said.