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Open casePalm Coast, Florida

The Bones at Toscana

On July 18, 2022, construction workers clearing land near New Leatherwood Drive in Palm Coast's Toscana community found a human bone. FCSO, FDLE, the District Medical Examiner…

· Flagler County Sheriff's Office

Open the file Tip line386-313-4911

The Chenzo casebook · 40 files from 10 states

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All 8 solved files
  1. 2003Found After 22 Years: Mary Lou CombsShe was found more than 22 years later, still in her car underwater just off Palm Coast. A volunteer dive team spotted a bumper, and FBI underwater…Solved 2026
  2. 1996The Beer Cans That Solved a 1996 Store KillingA 25-year-old case with the killer's blood at the scene but no database match, cracked when genetic genealogy pointed to a family and detectives…Solved 2023
  3. 1992Christy Mirack and the Wedding DJOne of the first genetic genealogy cases to end in a conviction: a 25-year-old murder of a schoolteacher traced to a familiar local wedding DJ.Solved 2019
  4. 1981The Coach Next Door: Linda SlatenAn FDLE-backed genetic genealogy search led detectives, 38 years later, to a man the family knew: the youth football coach of the victim's son.Solved 2022
  5. 1981Buckskin Girl: Marcia KingOne of the first unidentified people named through public genealogy databases. Volunteer genealogists found her family in about four hours after 37…Solved 2018
  6. 1980Pamela Kay Wittman: A Name After 43 YearsThe killer was known and long dead, but the victim had no name: a woman a serial killer led detectives to in the early 1980s went 43 years as a Jane…Solved 2024

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