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DNA Detectives: North Jersey Students Solve 9-Year-Old ‘Walmart John Doe’ Cold Case

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Closure After 9 Years: NJ College Students Used Advanced DNA to Finally Identify ‘Walmart John Doe’ as Missing Garden State Man

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Mahwah NJ, A decades-long mystery has been solved thanks to the groundbreaking work of students, professors, and volunteers at Ramapo College of New Jersey’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Program. Their efforts have brought closure to the family of a missing New Jersey man, whose skeletal remains were found in a North Carolina woods nine years ago.

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Major DNA Breakthrough in 21-Year-Old Mount Laurel Cold Case: Jane Doe Identified as Likely Turkic Descent!

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NJ State Police Hope New Ethnic Clues and Sketch Will Finally Crack Burlington County Mystery

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Mahwah, NJ – A major scientific breakthrough has injected new life into a two-decade-old mystery in Burlington County. Authorities have announced critical new details in the cold case of a woman whose remains were discovered 21 years ago in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

The New Jersey State Police Cold Case Unit, in collaboration with the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center, provided a significant update on the case, which has long been known as the “Burlington County Jane Doe”.

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