Criminal Paternity and Human Remains Identification

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Criminal Paternity and Human Remains Identification: Casework Examples

Heather Spillane, Lynne Helton, Stephen Milligan, Nibedita Mahanti, Kathy Kuebler, Dorothy Martus, Donald Yet, Paul Donald, Jeff Nye, Savithiry Srinivasan, and Charles Barna
Michigan State Police DNA Laboratory, 714 South Harrison, East Lansing, Michigan 48823

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The Michigan State Police DNA Laboratory has experienced an increase in criminal paternity, identification of human remains and relative association cases over the past year. Routinely, these cases will involve known reference standards, products of conception and degraded remains. These cases often test the limitations of the analytical systems in place at our laboratory. Chemiluminescent based RFLP technology is routinely employed. Recently, with ongoing validation of STR based systems, adjudicated cases of this type were re-evaluated using the STR based systems.

Several interesting cases will be presented, with both the original RFLP data and new STR data.

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