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Related article: Dallas man freed from prison after 25 years The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl was expected to be released Monday after 17 years in ...

By Mark Sherman The Associated Press NEW YORK — In the midst of being raped, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino told herself to pay attention to details that would allow her to identify her attacker. She ...

By Mary Foster The Associated PressNEW ORLEANS — From the time he was 9, Dennis Stewart was haunted by a boy eight years his elder.For Stewart, now a state trooper, Danny Dewey's funeral last month ...

By Marlon A. Walker The Associated PressFAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Spc. Megan Touma and a married Sgt. Edgar Patino began their relationship when both were stationed in Germany.Patino transferred in January ...

By Michelle Locke The Associated PressOAKLAND, Calif. — A body was removed from a remote area of the Oakland hills after a prominent computer programmer about to be sentenced for killing his missing ...

Recent advances in DNA technology and the development of searchable Federal, State, and local criminal DNA databases that can link DNA profiles from crime scenes to convicted offenders and arrestees, as well as to other crime scenes, are major contributors to the success of cold case units. Another contributor is the development of missing persons databases that contain DNA profiles of unidentified remains and of relatives of these missing persons. These advances in technology have encouraged many law enforcement agencies across the country to reevaluate their cold cases for possible DNA evidence. Although DNA plays a major role in many cold case investigations, it is not the only tool that cold case units use to work unsolved case investigations. ...

Any technology that can be used for legitimate purposes can be used to accomplish illegal aims as well. State and local law enforcement officials responding to emergencies and criminal complaints almost inevitably discover the presence of a cell phone. These cellular phones should not be overlooked as a potential source of evidence and intelligence in any type of criminal investigation. A quick look at the headlines will reveal criminals using cellular phone technology as a network for coordinating a criminal enterprise, a means to send harassing text messages to a victim, a method of producing photographs viewed by a pedophile, or a way for international or domestic terrorists to detonate devices. ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A plastic surgeon who replaced the fingerprints of an alleged drug dealer with skin from the bottom of his feet pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of harboring and concealing a fugitive. ...

The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet. Where is Jason McVean? McVean, ...