Cold cases getting solved with new DNA system
In less than two years, police investigators are reaping the benefits of using a new crime-solving tool. The system uploads crime scene DNA to a public genealogy website to to link suspects to cold cases.
Police in California announced that they arrested a man on a murder charge nearly two decades after the remains of a 30-year-old woman were found in a shallow grave, crediting advancements in DNA technology with the break in the cold case.
When investigators found a woman's remains in May 2003 at a park in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., all they could determine is that she was an adult female between the ages of 30 and 40 with Native American ancestry from the southern region of Mexico.
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But recently, thanks to advancements in DNA technology, investigators with the Mono County District Attorney’s Office were able to identify the woman as Isabel Sanchez Bernal, a 30-year-old woman from Puebla, Mexico.
Diego Santiago Hernandez-Antonia, 47, was arrested Friday morning and charged with murder in the death of 30-year-old Isabel Sanchez Bernal in May 2003. (Mono County Sheriff's Office)
Authorities arrested 47-year-old Mammoth Lakes resident Diego Santiago Hernandez-Antonia on one count of murder last week in Bernal's death.
Investigators did not immediately release how the identification of Bernal's remains led them to Hernandez-Antonia.
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He was booked into the Mono County jail on Friday morning and is being held on a $2 million bail.
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