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Identifinders International is honored to have worked with the Calaveras County Cold Case Task Force and Intermountain Forensics in the identification of Reginald Frisby, a 29-year-old African American victim of the notorious serial killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.

California Statewide Law Enforcement News

January 23, 2025

A baby girl who went missing 40 years ago after her parents were found dead in a wooded area in Texas was found “alive and well,” according to a release from the Office of the Texas Attorney General. Baby Holly is now 42 years old. Her parents, Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr, were victims of an apparent homicide in 1981 in Houston…

Texas.Gov

June 9, 2022

Three decades have passed since two young women were murdered by the so-called “Canal Killer” in Phoenix. The trial of their accused murderer, Bryan Patrick Miller, is scheduled to begin next week.

Fox10 News Phoenix

September 30, 2022

In 2005, when the days old baby girl was discovered wrapped in a sheet and trash bag, buried under garbage in a dumpster, she quickly became known as “Baby Doe.” Three people discovered her body behind Sam Houston Village, a campus dorm, while digging through discarded items at the end of the school year.

KTRK-TV ABC-13 Houston

April 15, 2022

Identifinders International assisted the Michigan State Police in the identification of Patrick Gilham as the suspect in the 1982 homicide of Rosanne Wood. The investigation encompassed over 10,000 hours of investigative work by the MSP…

WNDU

March 18, 2022

Identifinders International in collaboration with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, identified 71 year old Warren Luther Alexander as a suspect in the 1992 murder of Nona Stamey Cobb. Alexander was arrested in Diamondhead, Mississippi, and is being held in Hancock County Jail awaiting extradition back to North Carolina…

Newsweek

March 17, 2022

After 18 years, the suspect in a series of rapes and home invasions in Pullman has been arrested in Spokane. suspect in series of sexual assaults and breakins in Pullman, WA after 18 years. Kenneth Downing, 47, of Elk, was arrested around 10:45 a.m. Thursday…

The Spokesman-Review

March 17, 2022

In January 1981, a dog wandered into the woods and returned with a human arm in its mouth. Local police later discovered a man who was beaten to death and a woman who had been strangled. The family confirmed the couple was Dean and Tina Clouse. However, their child, Hollie was never found…

USA Today

January 12, 2022

The mystery of a teenage hitchhiker, now identified as Daniel Paul Armantrout, was solved 60 years later because of advances in DNA technology and genealogy.

The New York Times

November 3, 2021

The DNA was “degraded, it was low-level, it was contaminated with bacteria,” Measured at a trillionth of a gram, the team at Identifiers International was hired to extract data from the DNA sample.

CBS2 Chicago

June 9, 2021