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[h=1]'All hands on deck' as investigators work to identify SE DC human remains[/h]
Investigators flooded the 100 block of Wayne Place SE in hazmat suits.

The Southeast, D.C. search into three sets of human remains found intensified on Wednesday.

Police brought in machinery to dig-up the ground. One group of officers sifted through mounds of dirt while another group of investigators entered both 113 and 111 Wayne Place SE.
They examined evidence pulled from the Wayne Place buildings under a massive gray tarp set-up like a tent.
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https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...-to-identify-se-dc-human-remains/65-548236181
 
[h=1]Dog Once on Brink of Death Becomes DC Pet Detective[/h]
A D.C. dog who is helping detectives sniff out clues was once nearly euthanized because of a genetic defect.

Kylie, a German shepherd, could not be a police dog because not all of her teeth grew in.

"She was going to be euthanized, but we gave her a FEMA test and determined she would be suitable for our work," said Gene Ryan, a paramedic for the D.C. Fire Department.

Ryan trained Kylie to be a cadaver dog.

In the past seven months, Kylie has assisted in dozens of searches throughout the D.C. region and in international disasters, working to recover remains.
Kylie's latest job was to find human remains at a construction site near a Southeast D.C. apartment building. Kylie and a K-9 named Ivy discovered a shallow grave with the remains of two women.
The K-9s went back to the site Wednesday to search for more remains. No new remains were found.
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Read more: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...Death-Becomes-DC-Pet-Detective-481557711.html
 
Neighbors concerned as search for more remains continues in Southeast D.C.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — One week ago today, construction workers in the crawl space of a Southeast Washington apartment noticed what looked to be bones, then a human scull and called police.

ABC7's Sam Ford explains why it was another busy day at the same scene in the video above
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See Video at link: http://wjla.com/news/local/human-remains-search-continues-southeast-dc
 
Families of missing women submit DNA to help identify skeletal remains found in Southeast Washington

The medical examiner’s office told police that examiners think the women were 30 to 60 years old, Newsham said. Two had been shot; one suffered blunt force trauma. Their deaths have been ruled homicides.

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Remains found in April on a property along Wayne Place SE are seen on the phone of Adan Escobar on Monday April 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Courtesy Photo) (Courtesy Photo/Courtesy Photo)

Two of the victims have been determined to be African Americans, the chief said. The race of the third is inconclusive.
 
Families of missing women submit DNA to help identify skeletal remains found in Southeast Washington

Newsham has said in the past that authorities do not know whether the homicides are related. He said investigators found some “personal items” at the scene but he would not elaborate. Because of damage to the skulls, police said they do not think facial reconstructions would be possible.

On the radio show Thursday, Newsham said the lead detective has reviewed missing person reports of women from the area around the apartment building. He said investigators are awaiting test results from the FBI to determine whether there is a match to samples submitted so far.

A spokeswoman for the D.C. medical examiner’s office confirmed that the femur bones had been sent to the FBI but had no other details.
 
Gardener1850 said:
Families of missing women submit DNA to help identify skeletal remains found in Southeast Washington

The medical examiner’s office told police that examiners think the women were 30 to 60 years old, Newsham said. Two had been shot; one suffered blunt force trauma. Their deaths have been ruled homicides.

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Remains found in April on a property along Wayne Place SE are seen on the phone of Adan Escobar on Monday April 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Courtesy Photo) (Courtesy Photo/Courtesy Photo)

Two of the victims have been determined to be African Americans, the chief said. The race of the third is inconclusive.
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Well that age range of 30-60 rules out Relisha.
 
Police testing DNA to try to identify 3 sets of human remains found in Southeast DC
WASHINGTON - D.C. police said investigators have identified the race and approximate ages of two of the three sets of human remains found last month in Southeast D.C.

Police are still patrolling this crime scene a month after one set of remains was found in a crawl space at an apartment building on Wayne Place while two other sets of remains were found nearby in a shallow grave in the woods.

D.C. police said investigators have now determined that two of the victims are African American women between the ages of 30 and 60 and that their remains had been there for at least a year and possibly longer.
 
District police organized the gathering Saturday to help families with missing loved ones meet one-on-one with detectives and forensic experts to try to find answers.

A main feature of the event included a DNA collection station, where relatives of the missing had their mouths swabbed for samples that will be run through a national database of dead but unidentified people.

“The benefits of taking just a few seconds to submit a DNA sample can sometimes lead to answering questions about loved ones that have gone unanswered for years,” said Jenifer Smith, director of the city’s Department of Forensic Sciences. “DNA has been the . . . definitive piece of investigations that have generated solid leads in missing-person cases time and time again.”
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The event comes a little more than a month after investigators unearthed three sets of skeletal remains in Southeast Washington. The women are homicide victims, and police are working to determine who they are and the circumstances surrounding their killings.

Chief Peter Newsham said the remains are a “perfect example” of people who could have been reported missing and later identified through DNA. Newsham said police have submitted the remains of the three women to the FBI for DNA analysis and will be comparing that DNA to those of area families that are missing loved ones.
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‘We want her to come home.’ Families of those who vanished search for answers.
 
Anthony Blalock had not seen his mother in two weeks when he spotted her burgundy Oldsmobile. It was on a street in Southwest Washington. A man he didn’t know was driving it.

It was 1984 and Barbara Jean Dreher was missing. Blalock, then 23, followed the car as it pulled up to an apartment building and watched the man go inside. He asked a friend riding with him to stay behind as he rushed to a nearby home and called police.

The police found some disturbing clues: a ski mask, rope and gloves in the trunk of the Oldsmobile. They questioned the man but did not file charges. There was no sign of 39-year-old Dreher then, and there has been none since.
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Then, this spring, a D.C. detective reached out after a construction crew discovered skeletal remains of a woman in an apartment building crawl space in Southeast. During a search, police found the remains of two more women in a shallow grave behind the building. At least two were AfricanAmerican. Two had been shot; the other beaten.
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Authorities are now using DNA comparisons to try to determine the victims’ identities, and Dreher’s case is one they are looking at. The remains were found less than a mile from the apartment complex where Blalock had followed his mother’s car.
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Much more at link: In 1984 she went missing. Could the skeletal remains found in a D.C. apartment crawl space in April belong to this mother?
 
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