DNA on Toothbrush Helps Colorado Police Crack 2006 Cold Case

Francisca Perea-Dominguez; Salvador Hernandez-Morales.Photo: Aurora Police (2) DNA found on a toothbrush has helped Colorado authorities crack a 16-year-old murder case. Earlier this week, authorities in Aurora charged Salvador Hernandez-Morales, 45, with first-degree murder, felony murder and sexual assault in the 2006 killing of Francisca Perea-Dominguez. Hernandez-Morales was linked to the slaying after his DNA found on a toothbrush matched semen found at the crime scene. Hernandez-Morales and Perea-Dominguez, 42, were roommates at the time of her death.

DNA Proves Boy Claiming to Be Missing Illinois Child Is Not Timmothy Pitzen

Using DNA, authorities have concluded that a young man found bruised and acting scared Wednesday on a Kentucky street who claimed he’d been abducted and gave his name asTimmothy Pitzenis not, in fact, the child who went missing in 2011 at age six. At 4:37 pm EST Thursday, FBI Louisville tweeted, “DNA results have been returned indicating the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen.” In a followup tweet, the agency stated: “A local investigation continues into this person’s true identity.

DNA Results for Toast the Dallas Rescue Pup Are In! Find Out If the Animal Is a Coyote or a Dog

Toast just took aDNA test, and it turns out she is a 100 percent dog.Officers from the Dallas Police Department found thecaramel-colored pup huddled near a dumpsterduring a patrol duty in February. While rescuers agreed the animal was cute, they couldn’t decide if the pup was a dog or a coyote.That’s whenDallas Animal Servicestook Toast in and set up a DNA test to solve the mystery and determine where to house the little pup.

DNA Taken From BTK Killer's Unwitting Daughter Led to His Arrest: 'They Needed to Catch My Dad'

Kerri Rawsongrew up worshipping her doting, protective father,Dennis Rader. But she also unwittingly gave police the final piece of the puzzle they’d spent 30 years searching for — and unmasked her father as the brutal “BTK” serial killer who had terrorized her hometown of Wichita, Kans., for decades. Rader killed ten people between 1974 and 1991 while taunting police to catch him — and giving himself the nickname BTK, which stands for “bind, torture and kill” — before the killings stopped.

DNA Taken from Water Bottle on Cross-Country Flight Leads to Suspect's Arrest in 1985 Killing

Roger Dean.Photo: Colorado Bureau of Investigation Colorado authorities arrested a man in connection with a 1985 killing after getting his DNA from a water bottle he discarded on a cross-country flight. Michael Jefferson, 64, was flying to Los Angeles from New Orleans when Colorado detectives surreptitiously grabbed the bottle. Jefferson is suspected in the murder of 51-year-old Roger Dean, who was fatally shot after a masked suspect broke into his Lone Tree home on November 21, 1985.