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Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

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Grantees

See the Office of Justice Programs' Funding Statistics page where you can do a search for awards made through this and other Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) programs.

Grantee Highlights

Use the Submit a Success Story form to provide information about how BJA funding through this program (or others) has impacted your agency, organization, or community.

Listen to the January 2023 Finding a Serial Killer—and Justice—After 40 Years podcast episode to hear how decades of determined police work and cutting-edge forensic science identified Joe Michael Ervin as the person who assaulted and murdered four women between 1978 and 1981. Also read the corresponding blog post.

Date Modified: April 6, 2023
Date Created: June 14, 2022