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New DNA Technology Is Helping Ohio Identify Missing Persons


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Ohio has its first success in identifying skeletal remains using a technology not previously available to the state's crime labs. Twenty-two-year-old Dewayne Lewis went missing from his Toledo home in 2013. This spring, hunters discovered human bones. In November, detectives at the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) were able to identify those remains as Lewis thanks to a partnership with the global research and development organization Battelle. Battelle picked out the instrumentation and
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Focus On TechnologyBy Ann Thompson

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