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Fort Worth Police Hoping Facial Reconstruction Images Help In Cold Case

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Fort Worth Police released images they hope could help identify a victim in a more than five-year-old cold case. computerized image of deceased woman found in 2013 in Fort...

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Scientist Working To Harness The Silk Abilities Of Spiders

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A spider’s silk is as strong as the Kevlar woven into bulletproof vests and more elastic than nylon, making it tougher than any material made by human hands. Generations of...

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Data Breach Affects 92M MyHeritage DNA Testing Service Users

Israel (CNET) – Data breaches are always problematic, but they can be especially troubling when they happen on platforms with access to supersensitive information — like your DNA. On Monday,...

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Texas Death Row Inmate Rodney Reed Loses At Supreme Court

HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling refusing DNA testing of additional evidence in the lengthy case of a man condemned for the...

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Sheriff: Texas Man Executed In 1999 Now Linked To 1981 Death

BRYAN (CBSDFW.COM) – A Texas sheriff says investigators used developments in DNA technology to identify a man executed in 1999 as the killer of a real estate agent whose death went unsolved for more...

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Government’s DNA Testing Of Migrant Parents Turns Up Surprises

UNITED STATES (AP) – The U.S. government’s DNA testing of migrant families separated at the Southwest border has turned up some surprises. A Health and Human Services official said Tuesday that in two...

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‘Super Snake’ Slithering Around Florida? DNA Study Says Yes

FLORIDA (CBS Local) – A study of Florida’s python population has discovered some unnerving information about a possibly terrifying new breed of slithering creatures. Researchers believe a “super snake”...

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Rowlett Police Search For Clues In Bizarre Burglary With Obscene Twist

UPDATE: Rowlett Police said Tuesday night they are expediting DNA testing processing. Police would say where they’re sending the DNA, but said they’re willing to spend more money to get it done...

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Fort Worth Judge Exonerates Man Wrongly Imprisoned For 19 Years

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Fort Worth judge has signed an order that exonerates a man who spent 19 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of murder. The ruling Wednesday by state District...

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Police Receive Tips On ‘Person Of Interest’ Regarding Burglary, Nude Photos

ROWLETT, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Rowlett Police said they’ve received two tips from citizens in regarding surveillance images of a person of interest in a burglary where the suspect left nude images on...

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Sailor Killed In 1941 At Pearl Harbor To Be Buried In Dallas

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A 26-year-old Texas sailor killed during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor will be buried in Dallas on the 77th anniversary of the attack. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting...

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Texas Professor’s Involvement In Chinese Genetic Editing Investigated

HOUSTON (CBDFW.COM/CNN) – A professor at Rice University is being investigated for his possible involvement with research done by a Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make the world’s first...

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Remains Of World War II Pilot From Texas Located, Identified

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The remains of a World War II pilot from Texas missing since a 1945 crash in the Philippines have been located and identified. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Friday...

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North Texas Sexual Predator Who Got 11-Year-Old Girl Pregnant Sentenced To 60...

McKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Plano man found guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child was sentenced to 60 years in prison without the possibility of parole. In February 2018, medical...

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Man Accused In Uptown Rape Now Charged With 2nd Sex Assault

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Police say the man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Uptown Dallas on February 1  has now been linked to a sexual attack that happened more than a year ago. Officials say...

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Can A DNA Test Help You Lose Weight?

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s the genes with a G that some companies say might help you fit in your old jeans. It’s a growing trend of nutrigenomics, the study of how genetics process nutrients in...

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University Of North Texas Researchers Use DNA To Identify Homicide Victim 30+...

DENTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — An Arkansas man whose remains were found in Oklahoma more than 30 years ago, has been identified thanks to work by researchers at the University of North Texas and...

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Former Texas Prison Sergeant Set For Trial In Inmate’s Death

ROSHARON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A former Texas prison sergeant is slated to stand trial, accused of throwing a handcuffed prisoner onto a concrete floor so viciously that the inmate died. Lou...

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Houston Area Man Re-Arrested For Allegedly Stabbing 11-Year-Old Boy To Death

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Newly-tested DNA evidence led authorities to re-arrest a man accused of fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as he walked home from school in 2016. Andre Timothy...

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Texas State Board Says Rapid DNA Machines Jeopardize Cases

AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Rapid DNA machines are roughly the size of an office printer and so far they’ve helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and verified family...

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Deputies: 57-Year-Old Texas Man Was ‘Entirely Consumed By His Own Dogs’

JOHNSON COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A missing person investigation in Johnson County has ended with the revelation that a 57-year-old man was completely eaten by his dogs. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a...

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Heartbroken, Town Says ‘Bye’ To Beloved 154-Year-Old Pecan Tree Deemed ‘Unsafe’

HIGHLAND PARK (CBSDFW.COM) – The town of Highland Park is preparing to say goodbye to a historic landmark. The “Big Pecan Tree” has seen generations of tree-lightings at the holidays, but, in early...

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Rihanna, Meek Mill Join Calls To Halt Texas Execution Of Rodney Reed

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSNEWS.COM) – A growing list of celebrities and a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers are the latest to call on Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution of a death row inmate amid...

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Oprah Urges Texas Governor To ‘Take A Pause’ On Rodney Reed Execution

NEW YORK (CBSNEWS.COM) — Oprah Winfrey is speaking out about the Rodney Reed death row case in Texas, urging Governor Greg Abbott to “take a pause” on the execution scheduled for November 20. In...

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Texan Spending Fortune, Hours A Day Trying To Live To At Least 120 Years Old:...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Hundreds of pills, expensive machines and constant blood testing. They are among the keys to immortality according the ultra-wealthy who are becoming devout followers of what’s...

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Insider Warns Of Aggressive Sales Tactics To Get Seniors To Sign Up For...

FRISCO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Stephanie Ingle was told it was an easy way to make money and help senior citizens, so she signed up to work as a DNA testing recruiter. Her job was to find senior...

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Fort Worth Police ID Man Who Murdered 11-Year-Old Julie Fuller In 1983 Cold Case

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) — On June 27, 1983, 11-year-old Julie Fuller disappeared from the Kensington Motel in Arlington after taking out the trash. She was found raped and murdered in Fort Worth the...

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Authorities Begin Exoneration Process For Texas Man After DNA Leads To New...

Authorities say they will begin the process to exonerate a Houston man who was convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing that investigators now believe was committed by someone else.

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Longtime Fugitive Serial Killer Jose Sifuentes Back In Custody In Dallas

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Dallas Police Department, Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and FBI worked to arrest longtime fugitive and serial killer, Jose Sifuentes, who was wanted for three...

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DNA Databases Testing The Limits Of Privacy

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It could be the end of privacy as we know it. Home DNA testing combined with genetic genealogy means virtually anyone can be identified. The new technology is turning cold...

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Plano Police Officer Who Beat COVID-19 Donates Plasma: ‘My Opportunity To...

PLANO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Plano police officer is coming to the aid of COVID-19 patients. But instead of doing it with his badge and gun, he’s doing it with his blood. Officer David Tilley...

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Suspected Serial Rapist David Thomas Hawkins Arrested, Returned To Dallas 35...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot announced Wednesday that his office, working with Dallas Police and the FBI, arrested David Thomas Hawkins, 74, for the aggravated...

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Jailed Texas Man Charged In 2003 Murder Following Alert From DNA Database

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A man has been charged in the 2003 strangling of a woman whose body was found on a rural road in West Texas, authorities said Friday. Andy Castillo, of Lubbock, is charged with...

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After 6 Months In Jail Wise County District Attorney Drops Murder Case...

WISE COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) — After dropping indictments against a man for the violent murder of his neighbor, the district attorney in Wise County says the arrest wasn’t a mistake. Rodney Aric Maxwell is...

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‘Finally, Finally’: Suspected Killer Of Fort Worth Teen Carla Walker Arrested...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The story of 17-year-old Carla Walker, a high school cheerleader from Benbrook kidnapped and killed in 1974, has been told and retold. It’s a mystery her family never gave up...

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Man Arrested In Dallas For 1996 Murder Of Los Angeles Teenager With Help Of...

LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Nearly 25 years after a Los Angeles girl was found slain, a suspect was arrested in Dallas based on DNA evidence, California authorities said Wednesday. Jose Luis Garcia,...

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Man Charged In 3 Texas Bank Robberies After DNA And Fingerprint Matches

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Midland man tied to bank robberies in Lubbock, Odessa and Abilene has been federally charged, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Kenneth...

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Forensic Genealogy Used In Glen McCurley Case Could Help Close Thousands Of...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – When cold case investigators told Glen McCurley last year they knew he was the person who killed Carla Walker in 1974, he challenged them. If they knew, then why didn’t anyone...

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‘Thankful She Wasn’t Forgotten,’ Family Of Murder Victim Janet Love Gets...

BEDFORD, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The family of a North Texas woman who was murdered in her own apartment finally has some closure, 35 years after her death. Photo of Janet Love’s apartment in 1986, the...

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Denton County Woman Helps Police Track Down Violent Criminals Through...

DENTON COUNTY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – You don’t have to be in law enforcement to solve crimes or identify murder suspects. A Denton County woman is proving that as one of the country’s leading experts in...

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