Cold cases, some decades old are being cracked in Houston because of technology at Othram, a first-of-its-kind lab in the world that was purposefully built to identify perpetrators or victims from crime scenes. KPRC2Zach
, a first-of-its-kind lab in the world that was purposefully built to identify perpetrators or victims from crime scenes. The technology is capable of testing evidence with degraded or trace amounts of DNA.
“We have returned investigative leads in more than 1000 cases, there’s 150 publicly announced cases you can find on.” Mittelman explained. “Honestly, it was a dream. It was a dream to be able to make the world a little bit safer, a little bit better. To bring closure to these families and piece them back together. To really create technology that would hopefully become a deterrent for crime.”
“Going back to the 1930s, HPD has just over 6000 cold cases,” said Houston Police Department Sergeant Richard Rodriguez, who heads the agency’s cold case division.“When cases come here, you have to think outside the box, outside of traditional methods and means and that’s why we started using forensic genealogy.
Frances Ivey was murdered in her place of employment, Shumate and Company, a real estate office along Memorial Drive near Highway 6 in west Houston. Also killed on that August day, her colleagues Elizabeth Shumate and Joann Brown. Ivey’s girls believe it was a targeted robbery.“We have the typical stuff, fingernail scrapings, there’s some rope that was used to bind the victims. Ballistic evidence, there’s some stuff we can still use.
If this does get solved, the Ivey sisters said they will be there to see justice is served for their mother and her two colleagues.The family is interested in getting the case over to Othram. They say they’re looking into the case.
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