{"id":225427,"date":"2026-04-09T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:47:09","slug":"florida-teams-with-forensic-company-to-find-new-leads-in-unsolved-murder-cases-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225427\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida teams with forensic company to find new leads in unsolved murder\u00a0cases \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attempting to clear some of the approximately 21,000 unsolved murder\u00a0cases in Florida, the Office of Statewide Prosecution\u00a0is contracting with Othram, a Texas-based forensic technology company specializing in human identification.<\/p>\n<p>Othram\u2019s DNA detection technology is expected to provide new leads through forensic genetic genealogy, according to a release from the Attorney General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General James Uthmeier outlined the partnership while at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement regional operations center in Miami on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we continue to prove this new technology works, we\u2019re able to track DNA evidence through family trees to catch bad guys, my hope is we\u2019ll continue to put more resources and attention into it,\u201d Uthmeier said.<\/p>\n<p>Uthmeier said the state is using grants from his office to pay for the program.<\/p>\n<p>The release from Uthmeier\u2019s office notes that in addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2024\/07\/02\/i-will-get-justice-how-a-deck-of-cards-may-help-solve-south-florida-cold-cases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unsolved cases<\/a>, the state has nearly 900 cases with unidentified human remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attempting to clear some of the approximately 21,000 unsolved murder\u00a0cases in Florida, the Office of Statewide Prosecution\u00a0is contracting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,28,30,29,114,115,109],"class_list":["post-225427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}