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...gave up cell phones or money or sex, closed the doors, heaped mattresses and dry maize leaves against them and set them alight. Thirty-eight people were burned alive. It took scientists at the morgue in nearby Eldoret more than a year to separate the remains. But while DNA tests could distinguish body parts and even piles of dust, they could not name them. At a mass burial on May 14 beside the scorched earth where the church once stood, 18 of the coffins were pasted with strips of white tape on which was written UN ELD - for Unknown, Eldoret...
...study, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), combed the genetic database of the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE), a resource of DNA from 2,000 families with at least one autistic child. The scientists focused on the more than 1,000 genetic samples of families in which at least one son was affected by the disorder, prompted by the results of an earlier study using the same database, which identified a rich autism-related genetic region on chromosome 17 that contained genetic variants more common in boys than in girls. While nearly 40% of the general population...
...have yet to reach the depths of what he has done.' WILLIAM BRATTON, Los Angeles police chief, on John Floyd Thomas Jr., 72, whose DNA was matched to two 1970s murders; he is believed to have killed as many as 30 people...
...mistress of reacts to brutally unflattering portrait in book by wife of by saying maybe it would be a good idea after all to ascertain the identity of her daughter's father so, yes, let's do that DNA test...
...Elizabeth McKeown, 67, in Westchester in 1976. And detectives believe that not only is he likely connected to additional murders, but he may in fact be the infamous "Westside Rapist" who terrorized the county in the 1970s. Cases associated with the Westside Rapist investigation with available, if partial, DNA profiles appear to match Thomas' DNA. At a news conference on April 30, police said they plan to file charges against Thomas for three Inglewood slayings 33 years ago, including that of Maybelle Hudson, and that they are combing through cold-case files dating back to the 1950s...