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Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Uses New DNA Testing For First Time To Seek Killer In 21-Year-Old Cold Case
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Status
Reported, not yet confirmed
Independent sources
2
First seen
Oct 22, 5:08 PM EDT
updated Oct 23, 6:16 PM EDT
Topic
Local News
Reported by WXIA (11Alive NBC) and WANF (Atlanta News First CBS), not yet confirmed.
What Happened
The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office is using new DNA testing technology for the first time to help seek a killer and solve a 21-year-old 2005 cold case, WANF and WXIA reported.
Written by our system from the sources below (2), version 1, Oct 23, 6:27 PM EDT. Official warnings are never rewritten: they are quoted as issued.
- New DNA testing technology could help solve 2005 Paulding County cold case · WANF (Atlanta News First CBS)
- Paulding County Sheriff’s Office uses new DNA testing for first time to seek killer in 21-year-old cold case · WXIA (11Alive NBC)
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How It Unfolded
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