Jo Jo Dullard (21) went missing on November 9, 1995, while she was on her way home to Callan in Co Kilkenny after she was out socialising in Dublin. She missed her last bus home to Kilkenny and boarded a 10pm bus to Naas in Co Kildare, planning to hitchhike the rest of the way to her home.
Toronto police say they have linked three cold cases from the 1980s and identified the killer of three women over the span of five years as the same man. Through DNA testing, or investigative genetic genealogy, police have identified Kenneth Smith as the killer of Christine Prince, Gracelyn Greenridge and Claire Samson, Det. Sgt. Steve Smith said in a video statement provided by Toronto police Thursday. The three women were killed in separate incidents between 1982 and 1987, Smith said.
Sifting through decades-old files and harnessing the reach of social media, a little-known unit in the West Midlands has solved more than 240 missing person cold cases in just three and a half years.
The discovery of what appeared to be a human femur and pelvic bone might have unnerved the construction workers who unearthed them near Lake Worth Beach last week, but for Dr. Heather Walsh-Haney and her students, it was just an average Monday. The forensic anthropologist and Florida Gulf Coast University professor is often one of the first calls officials make when they need to solve the mysteries of Florida's dead.
