On April 20th, 2017
SAN DIEGO – On April 14, 2017, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced today that the 1992 rape and murder of an 84-year-old San Diego woman has now been solved after familial DNA testing conducted by California Department of Justice (DOJ) criminalists. “Science is amazing, and so are the highly intelligent criminalists who […]
On September 22nd, 2016
MARYSVILLE - DNA work by criminalists at several California Department of Justice labs has led to the arrests of two 65-year-old cousins in connection with the 1973 murders of two Olivehurst girls, just 12 and 13 years old. The arrests were announced on September 13, 2016. The Yuba County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from the […]
SANTA BARBARA - On September 1, 2016, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office announced that an arrest had been made in a 28-year-old homicide case that involved the murder of 46-year-old Vernon Hart Kendrick of Montecito. Arrested was Larry Lon Lee, 52, an inmate at the Sarasota County Jail in Sarasota, Florida. The arrest followed […]
On May 16th, 2016
RICHMOND- While it's not a celebration, it certainly is a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment - having identified a woman whose murdered body was found in Los Angeles in 1969, and for 47 years was only known as Jane Doe 59. Thanks to work over the years by California Department of Justice criminalists, Jane Doe […]
On May 5th, 2016
STOCKTON - When the daughter of an 84-year-old Stockton murder victim who was raped and killed inside her own home, stood before television news cameras to express how relieved she was that her mother's suspected killer had finally been identified and arrested four years after the crime, California Department of Justice (DOJ) criminalists in the […]
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office announced on July 3, 2014 the arrest of a man suspected in a violent rape that took place nearly 10 years ago. The arrest was the result of a DNA hit in a California Department of Justice (DOJ) lab. According to the sheriff's office, DOJ criminalists notified investigators of […]
