Daily Archives: September 21, 2013

What a DNA Activation Feels Like (Ascension Symptoms)
Oh, you pesky Ascension symptoms! This is ONE account (there are many other ways you can experience this) of what a DNA string activation sequence FEELS like...

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S01, E69 - DNA Will Prove I Did Not Give Birth to That Baby!

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Little Mix vs. Train - DNA/50 Ways To Say Goodbye
Another DNA mashup... I #39;m sorry! I LOVE how this turned out! Changes the vibe of the song in such a cool way! Enjoy 🙂 x Stalk me 😉 http://www.youtube.com/J...

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MSL - 10th Grade, DNA Detectives - UW Tacoma
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By PAUL FOY Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah sheriff who trailed a suspect across country for four days to grab a DNA sample from a cigarette butt says it solved the murder 18 years ago of a teenage prostitute.

Wasatch County Sheriff Todd Bonner was the original investigator in the bludgeoning death of Krystal Lynn Beslanowitch along the Provo River near Midway in 1995, and he kept at it over the years.

A Utah lab, Sorenson Forensics, recently vacuumed the suspect's full DNA from a rock used to crush the girl's skull. It matched a sample that Utah authorities already had from Joseph Michael Simpson.

But the sheriff had to obtain a fresh DNA sample. He got it from a cigarette Simpson discarded at a smoke shop in Sarasota, Fla., and the arrest was made.

Bonner says the case has haunted him for years and he was finally able to solve it with advances in DNA technology.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

A Utah sheriff traveled to Florida and helped arrest a man in an 18-year-old murder case after authorities say they used DNA from a cigarette butt to link him to the crime.

Wasatch County Sheriff Todd Bonner flew to Sarasota County, Fla., and helped take Joseph Michael Simpson, 46, into custody Tuesday.

Simpson, formerly of Clearfield, was being held on suspicion of aggravated murder in the killing of 17-year-old Krystal Lynn Beslanowitch, whose bloodied and broken body was found Dec. 6, 1995, along the Provo River near Midway.

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DNA from rock, cigarette helps solve 1995 murder

SALT LAKE CITY A cigarette butt proved to be the undoing of a man suspected of killing a girl in Utah 18 years ago, after a sheriff trailed him for four days to grab the DNA evidence.

Without the efforts of Wasatch County Sheriff Todd Bonner, the case would have been forgotten long ago. For Bonner, however, it was personal. As the original investigator in the bludgeoning death of the teenage prostitute in 1995, he couldn't let it go.

"It was haunting me my whole career," Bonner told The Associated Press on Friday. "It doesn't matter that she was a street girl. This is a 17-year-old girl a human being. I could care less what she did for a living. She was doing what she had to survive."

The body of Krystal Lynn Beslanowitch was found Dec. 6, 1995, along the Provo River near Midway.

Bonner said Joseph Michael Simpson, who was arrested Tuesday, was "never on our radar" until earlier this year, when a lab extracted "touch DNA" from the granite rocks used to crush the teen's skull.

Bonner flew to Sarasota, Fla., to help arrest the unemployed 46-year-old, who was living with his mother there.

A convicted murderer, Simpson had been paroled from Utah State Prison months before Beslanowitch's slaying and probably encountered her on a gritty Salt Lake City street. A shuttle-bus driver for a Utah resort, he would have been familiar with the area around Midway, a mountain town 38 miles southeast of Salt Lake City where she was killed, Bonner said.

Beslanowitch, originally from Spokane, Wash., had been in Utah for five months before her death.

Jeff Beslanowitch, a retired 61-year-old steelworker from Spokane, told the AP that Krystal Beslanowitch was a runaway daughter of his ex-wife, but no blood relation to him, and she "never had a chance in life."

"Krystal had a troubled upbringing with drugs and prostitution. It was quick, easy money," Jeff Beslanowitch said Friday. "I'm glad they got him. It took a long time, but this guy deserves to sit in a cell for the rest of his life."

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DNA from rock, cigarette helps crack 1995 cold case