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Marine’s Jawbone Found in Arizona Rock Collection Solves Mystery of 70-Year-Old Training Accident

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A jawbone found in Arizona has been identified as belonging to a U.S. Marine who died in a training accident in 1951, shedding light on a decades-old mystery. The discovery was made by a boy with a rock collection two decades ago, and last year, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office passed the bone to the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center in New Jersey after traditional DNA testing failed to yield results. According to a …

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DNA Breakthrough Solves Decades-Old Cold Case Mystery: Teenager Sandra Young Identified after 54 Years

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Portland, Oregon – For over half a century, the identity of a young woman found buried in Sauvie Island remained a mystery. Recently, through advanced DNA technology, authorities were able to identify her as Sandra Young, a teenager from Portland who went missing between 1968 and 1969. This breakthrough came after a person uploaded their DNA to a genealogy database, leading to the discovery that the DNA donor was a distant family member of Young. …

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