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Cold case investigations: Technology, social media turn the solve rate
Mar 7, 2020
Having spent decades hunting down the Oakland County Child Killer, Cory Williams was too curious to resist the long shot.
The retired Livonia detective ran pertinent DNA information from hair samples connecting the first and fourth victims, Mark Stebbins and Timothy King, through a genealogy database.
He was looking for people related to the hair originator. And lo! Did he find possibilities!
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Technologies and tools for cold case investigations have come a long way since the early 1980s, when missing Etan Patz’s face appeared on milk cartons throughout the nation. He was one of the first missing children to make such an appearance.
Since then, the Internet has become a quick go-to resource. Daily routines have incorporated cell phone and camera use.
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Nowadays, forensic experts can help prosecutors connect pieces of their case because of the latest DNA, camera and phone technologies.
That will be the case later this year, when prosecutors take Floyd Galloway Jr., 33, of Berkley, to trial for the murder of Danielle Stislicki, 28, of Farmington Hills.
During a preliminary exam, prosecutors presented evidence indicating that Galloway malevolently waited for Stislicki in a parking lot outside the MetLife offices where she worked in Southfield.
Stislicki hasn’t been seen since, and Galloway is in prison for assault, kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct because of a 2016 Hines Park attack.
Yet experts have said her DNA appeared in Galloway’s master bedroom carpeting, and technology placed their cell phones near each other the day she seems to have died.
Danielle's thread:
Still Missing - MI - Danielle Stislicki, 28, Southfield, 2 Dec 2016 #15 *ARREST*
Galloway's trial starts 4/20/20.
Mar 7, 2020
Having spent decades hunting down the Oakland County Child Killer, Cory Williams was too curious to resist the long shot.
The retired Livonia detective ran pertinent DNA information from hair samples connecting the first and fourth victims, Mark Stebbins and Timothy King, through a genealogy database.
He was looking for people related to the hair originator. And lo! Did he find possibilities!
[.....]
Technologies and tools for cold case investigations have come a long way since the early 1980s, when missing Etan Patz’s face appeared on milk cartons throughout the nation. He was one of the first missing children to make such an appearance.
Since then, the Internet has become a quick go-to resource. Daily routines have incorporated cell phone and camera use.
[.....]
Nowadays, forensic experts can help prosecutors connect pieces of their case because of the latest DNA, camera and phone technologies.
That will be the case later this year, when prosecutors take Floyd Galloway Jr., 33, of Berkley, to trial for the murder of Danielle Stislicki, 28, of Farmington Hills.
During a preliminary exam, prosecutors presented evidence indicating that Galloway malevolently waited for Stislicki in a parking lot outside the MetLife offices where she worked in Southfield.
Stislicki hasn’t been seen since, and Galloway is in prison for assault, kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct because of a 2016 Hines Park attack.
Yet experts have said her DNA appeared in Galloway’s master bedroom carpeting, and technology placed their cell phones near each other the day she seems to have died.
Danielle's thread:
Still Missing - MI - Danielle Stislicki, 28, Southfield, 2 Dec 2016 #15 *ARREST*
Galloway's trial starts 4/20/20.