Sauk County Sheriff’s Office says Audrey Backeberg, now in her 80s, is living outside of Wisconsin. The detective who managed to track her down says she “had her reasons for leaving” in July 1962.
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An Indiana teen died in 1866. How did her skull end up in an Illinois house’s walls?
DNA tests identified a skull found during home renovations in 1978 as that of an Indiana teen who died after childbirth in 1866. Authorities say Esther Granger was likely the victim of grave robbing.
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A boy snatched from a California park in 1951 is found living on the East Coast
Luis Armando Albino was lured away from a California park at the age of 6. He reunited with his biological family this summer after his niece found him through DNA testing and newspaper clippings.
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She was struck by a car during the holidays in 1989. DNA just helped find the driver
Ruth Buchanan had just left a department store in Charlotte, N.C., with a friend when she was fatally struck by a car. After 30 years, DNA technology helped police identify the driver.
