this is The first time it is used in Sweden, ” says Bo Lundqvist, head of the police cold cases-group of the southern region, to SVT News sweden, Skåne, who believe that this way of working will become more common.
The unknown man was found by a svamplockare in skåne Ekeby on september 17, 2003. The body was partially hidden, and the police found signs that showed that he had been killed, an estimated one month up to a year before he was found.
has been reconstructed and investigators believe he is between 35 and 55 years, and for several reasons he has its origins in the Balkans or elsewhere in Eastern europe. The techniques also produced a full dna profile.
The profile will now be sent with a dna expert and analyzed on an american släktforskningsregister who have been able to help the police in several previous prostitution in Sweden, but it is the first time the police seeking such help. Bo Lundqvist says to SVT News Skåne that he is sure it will be a hit among the millions of people who are in the registry.
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legal department which investigated the matter in about half a year and during a period, together with the National forensiskt centre tested the method on a few selected cases of serious crimes, such as murder and rape.
“In consultation with the police, we present something or a few cases that we test in the spring,” says Ricky Ansell, a geneticist at the National forensiskt centre in Linköping, sweden, to Research and Progress.
Investigators in the US said to Fox News that they could solve the 28 cold cases with the help of släktforskningsregistret Gedmatch in 2018.
Just Gedmatch contributed to the police last spring, after several decades of hunting, was able to seize the ”Golden state killer” – a suspected serial killer, rapist and kidnappers. It is not known which company that the Swedish police should consult.
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In the autumn it became known that dna analyses have also been used by the prosecutor leading the investigation of the rapes carried out in the centre of Malmö by a man who stalked his victims on a bicycle. With the help of a so-called in-depth dna analysis could be inferred from several details about the offender and thus the cancellation of several hundred people from the investigation.
Read more: Police ask for help with 15 more unsolved murders
Polisregion the south has in recent times gone out with a plea for the public’s help in 30 different cold cases, all of suspected murder, where the Ekebymannen is a. Henceforth, they will be expanded with one at a time. The events with the suspected murdered people spanning so far over a period of time from October 1991 to February 2015.