![]() Her body was found two days later in a snowy culvert. Siobhan McGuinness was a 5-year-old girl from Missoula, Montana, who was abducted in early 1974 while walking to a friend's house. It was announced on October 15, that Calvin Hoover, a man who died in 2015, matched the profile of DNA and was named as her killer. After Othram was able to successfully sequence a profile, Toronto Police were able to find her killer in the fall. In 2019, the Toronto Police Service contacted Othram to generate a DNA profile from the semen found on Jessop's clothing and perform forensic genealogy to find her killer. ![]() She had been raped and stabbed to death, with semen being found on her underwear. Her body was later recovered on December 31 in a farmer's field in Sunderland, Ontario. She went home, dropped off her bag, and planned on meeting with a friend at a nearby park. Cases Ĭhristine Jessop was a 9-year-old girl from Queensville, Ontario, who was abducted after getting off her school bus in October 1984. Othram technology and casework inspired the 500th episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Many cases are not publicized by the company until after a successful identification. Othram has assisted with identifications of cold cases such as Beth Doe, Septic Tank Sam, and Delta Dawn. The company also offers law enforcement agencies tools and programs to infer kinship among individuals, both closely and distantly related, through a combination of short tandem repeat (STR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) testing, as well as forensic genome sequencing of DNA. Othram (also Othram Inc.) is an American corporation specializing in forensic genealogy to resolve unsolved murders, disappearances, and identification of unidentified decedents or murder victims (colloquially known as John Does and Jane Does). ![]() ( January 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) If the information is appropriate for the lead of the article, this information should also be included in the body of the article. This article's lead section contains information that is not included elsewhere in the article. ![]()
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