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The search for the father she never knew only took seven decades to accomplish for 99-year-old Margaret Bette Clayton Hults.

The former longtime Walla Wallan never met her father, but she gained newfound family members through DNA research.

Many in the clan came to town on May 8, the day before Mothers Day, to meet, said Hults daughter Sarah Sally Sumerlin of Walla Walla.

What started out as a small gathering of six or so people grew into a crowd of at least 60, Sumerlin said. That includes Hults daughters Sandra Torres of Waitsburg and Maxine Walker of Nebraska, and son Dan Hults, with whom Bette lives in Everett.

Originally planned for a rendezvous in Wildwood Park, cold, rainy weather chased the group to Sumerlins home.

It was a fun day gathering, visiting and learning about the family tree with Hults relatives, Sumerlin said.

Hults 80-year-old nephew, Alan Thompson of Spokane, composed a song for her to play on his newly acquired lute. Hults is already looking forward to her 100th birthday.

About three weeks before the gathering, Hults told Sumerlin, I dont know if I will make it. But then the next day she reported she felt great.

The family has done due diligence with genealogy research, Sumerlin said. Our family goes back to almost God 1022, (before William the Conqueror left Normandy, France, and stormed across the English Channel in 1066).

I dont know if Gods on there, but that family tree goes way back, Sally Sumerlin said of the chart behind her mother, Bette Clayton Hults, 99. The extended, multi-generational family, numbering about 60 or so, gathered the day before Mothers Day, on May 7, 2022.

Hults said the family tree with the John Howland family (he died in 1673) indicates he was aboard the Mayflower. He and his sons are forefathers to such leaders as Bush, Roosevelt, Nixon, Ford and Churchill, Sumerlin said.

My mother is a member of Daughters of the American Revolution. Ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Its a respectable family.

But then theres Hults father, about whom she knew nothing, other than the name Rex Clayton listed on her birth certificate.

(My grandfather) was someone who wasnt the most scrupulous of persons, Dan Hults said in a Sept. 4, 2016, Everett Herald article about Hults DNA odyssey. George Harpley Pidd II, Claytons real name, was 71 when he died in 1968 in Cupertino, California.

So the man had an alias, was a bigamist, was convicted of a crime and tried to break out of jail. Thats a rather noisy closeted skeleton.

But until age 93, Hults knew none of this. Her father was a mystery.

Her mother, Fannie Mae Janes Netherland, married Rex Clayton in Casper, Wyoming, on April 3, 1922. They ended up in Ogden, Utah. Mae was pregnant with Bette Clayton, who was born in November 1922.

George left her that year and went as a railroad strike breaker to California and sent money for Mae to join him, but she didnt go, Sumerlin said.

Curiously, George told Fannie Mae to look for an ad in True West or Old West magazine if he didnt come back. Mae never spoke about this time in her life and subsequently divorced Clayton.

Before Mae, George married Mirth Woodall Pidd and was stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Lewis, now Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington.

Mirth wanted money to go to Portland so he decided to mug a taxi driver. They were probably still married when he married Mae.

The Everett Herald story cites a 1918 Tacoma Times article that reported Pidd was court-martialed, sentenced to life imprisonment and dishonorably discharged.

Furthermore, the Evening News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, reported in 1919 that Pidd was found guilty of beating taxi driver Lawrence Berquist into insensibility with a gas pipe for the purpose of robbery, which netted about $10.

The Evening News continued, reporting that Pidd was freed after the sentence was declared invalid because Pidds wife had testified against him. It said the court couldnt try him again on the charge because of a technical violation of the law.

While in jail at Fort Lewis, he and two other inmates plotted to break out of the slammer.

They were served pancakes with bottles of syrup in their cells every morning, Sumerlin said.

Using the same bean-the-victim-over the head modus operandi, the jailer was conked with a syrup bottle, and the inmates got his keys to open the cell doors. Oddly, Georges door lock was stuffed with paper, which prevented the key from working. The other inmates got away, and he was left to face the music.

Hults, who had been looking for any information about this man, had her DNA evaluated through Ancestry.com when she was 93. She found Rex, the name of her father. But his name is really George, Sumerlin said.

They discovered cousins and visited them in California. Sumerlin located a nephew in Spokane, and before the COVID-19 quarantine, she took her mom to meet him.

Bette and her husband, Thomas Hults, moved to Walla Walla in 1963-64. We were dirt poor. We came out to see the Seattle Worlds Fair, Sumerlin said. They liked Walla Walla so much they settled here.

Bette Hults was a saleswoman and taught sewing at the Singer Sewing Machine Company on Main Street. She was a bookkeeper for Burbee Candy Co. and later worked at Blue Mountain Action Council. She was a 4-H and Campfire leader. Thomas Hults died in 1990.

My mother was on hospice care in her early 90s and recovered. It shows a woman with a strong constitution. Shes a character, Sumerlin said.

This story is incredibly crazy, Sumerlin said. I wish she could have found (her dad) before he died.

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A new study reveals the strongest evidence to date that all bison in North America carry multiple small, but clearly identifiable, regions of DNA that originated from domestic cattle.

Researchers compared genome sequences among the major historical lineages of bison to 1,842 domestic cattle, establishing that all analyzed bison genomes contained evidence of cattle introgression.

This comparative study clearly documents that the people responsible for saving the bison from extinction in the late 1800s are also responsible for introducing cattle genetics into this species, says James Derr, a researcher with the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS).

The study updates findings from a series of studies published 20 years ago in which Derrs team revealed that only a few bison herds existed that appeared to be free of domestic cattle introgression. Now, with better genetic technology, these researchers have shown that even those herds are not free from hybridization.

Today, it appears that all major public, private, tribal, and non-governmental organization bison herds have low levels of cattle genomic introgression, says Sam Stroupe, a PhD student in Derrs lab and first author of the study in Scientific Reports.

This includes Yellowstone National Park, as well as Elk Island National Park in Canada, which were thought to be free of cattle introgression based on previous genetic studies.

These new findings will also have ramifications for bison conservation efforts; in this case, their findings could actually make conservation efforts easier, since certain herds will no longer need to be isolated, Derr says.

This shared genetic ancestry is the result of multiple hybridization events between North American bison and cattle over the last 200 years, which followed the well documented bison population crash of the 1800s.

Those hybridization events were mostly human-made, as cattle ranchers in the late 1800s intentionally bred domestic cattle with bison in an effort to create a better beef-producing animal. While the crossbreeding was successful, it failed to achieve their main purpose, and the effort was largely abandoned.

At the same time, William Hornaday and the American Bison Society were beginning national conservation efforts, sounding the alarm that North American bison were being driven to extinction. As a result, a national movement began to establish new bison conservation populations and preserve existing bison populations.

However, the only bison available to establish these new conservation herds were almost exclusively animals from the cattlemens private herds.

As a result, these well-intentioned hybridization efforts leave a complicated genetic legacy, says Brian Davis, a CVMBS researcher. Without these private herds, it is possible bison would have become extinct. At the same time, this intentional introduction of interspecies DNA resulted in remnant cattle footprints in the genomes of the entire contemporary species.

We now have the computational and molecular tools to compare bison genomic sequences to thousands of cattle and conclusively determine the level and distribution of domestic cattle genetics in bison that represent each of these historical bison lineages, he says.

Its important to recognize that although hybridization between closely related wildlife species has occurred naturally over timewell-known examples include coyotes and eastern wolves, grizzlies and polar bears, and bobcats and Canadian lynxthe bison-cattle hybridization is almost entirely a purposeful, human-made event that happened to coincide with the tremendous population bottleneck of the late 1800s, Derr says.

Two primary events, an extremely small bison population size and widespread interest in developing hybrid animals, changed and shaped the genomes of this species in ways we are just now starting to understand, Derr says. Nevertheless, this species did survive and now they are thriving across the plains of North America.

As one of the worlds most iconic animals, bison play a number of important, and sometimes conflicting, roles in society.

While some consider them a wildlife species that shouldnt be domesticated, others consider them an important economic livestock animal; although bison are raised as wildlife in state and federal parks and wildlife refuges, most bison alive today are owned by private ranchers and are raised for meat and fiber production.

To others, they hold religious and spiritual roles, as well as being icons of continental pride. In 2016, bison were even named the US national mammal.

Though viewed in different ways, bison conservation is a priority to many different groups, and it is imperative that we agree to use the best available scientific information to make decisions moving forward, Stroupe says.

These findings clearly show that, using modern genomic biotechnology, we can uncover many historical details regarding the past histories of a species and use this information to provide informed stewardship in establishing conservation policies into the future.

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The Washington state Attorney General's office identified 635 registered sex offenders who lawfully owed a DNA sample.

SEATTLE The effort to end the rape kit backlog has been a focus for Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office runs the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.

Eight years ago, Washington had more than 10,000 untested rape kits.

"We had a number of kits sitting on shelves for a number of reasons, state Representative Tina Orwall said in March.

Lawmakers like Orwall pushed for change, and progress has been made with thousands of kits tested, but there is still plenty of work to do.

"There is another problem that's related, which is convicted felons in our state are legally required to provide their DNA to law enforcement, but the reality is many thousands have slipped through the cracks, said Ferguson.

A team working inside Attorney General Bob Ferguson's office has been on a mission to follow up on cases where sex offender's failed to provide DNA.

Recently, the team produced results, identifying 635 registered sex offenders who lawfully owed a DNA sample. Of that number, 257 offenders could not provide samples for reasons like they were incarcerated in another state or they passed away. There are six offenders law enforcement have not reached yet; one in Clark County, two in Columbia County, and three in Snohomish County. There were 372 new DNA samples collected.

"If local law enforcement is trying to solve a cold case, they can put that DNA in and see if there's a match, said Ferguson.

So far there have been eight matches that are now under review. Three "hits" are for unsolved sex offenses in Washington. In two of the cases, the offender was already convicted, or a confirmed suspect. Three hits are from out-of-state offenses.

"Each of these numbers is some individual story right, a sexual assault survivor who really needs justice and accountability for what happened, said Ferguson.

Ferguson said his offices next focus will be on collecting DNA from people convicted for other serious offenses, like homicides, so it can also be added to the national database. He said that part of the project should be done by early Summer.

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Theres an obvious similarity between the murders of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice.

Both murders were horrific, Det. Sgt. Stephen Smith of Toronto Police said in an email.

Both women were bound and stabbed repeatedly in their Toronto homes in late 1983.

Both scenes represent a sadistic offender, Michael Arntfield, a Western University criminologist and former police officer, said in an interview.

Gilmour was 22.

Tice was 45.

Gilmour was a single, aspiring clothing designer from an extremely wealthy family.

Her father, David Gilmour, was the business partner of tycoon Peter Munk, co-founder of the mining company, Barrick Gold.

Tice was a recently divorced social worker and mother of four teenage children.

Tice earned a nursing degree from McMaster University and a Masters in social work from The University of Toronto.

They were similar in death if, not in life.

Both Erin and Susan were found in their beds and both suffered significant physical and sexual violence, Smith said.

Both women lived alone.

Both Gilmour and Tice lived low-risk lifestyles.

In 2008 a quarter-century after the murders improvements to DNA testing and filing allowed police to conclude that both women were assaulted and murdered by the same man.

How did their killer connect with each of them?

Why did the killer seem to disappear after the murders?

Theres no indication that the two women knew each other.

Where did Susan Tice and Erin Gilmours lives intersect?, Arntfield asked. They had dramatically different lifestyles.

Tices body was discovered in the upstairs bedroom of her home on Grace Street near Harbord Street on Aug. 17, 1983.

Her uncle checked on her after she missed a family dinner. Her mail had piled up. Her back door had been left open.

Four months later, on Dec. 20, 1983, Gilmour was murdered in her nearby Yorkville apartment.

Gilmour lived in a particularly high-rent part of town, above the clothing boutique where she worked as manager.

Gilmours killer had a tight window of opportunity to take her life and then escape.

On the final evening of her life, Gilmour finished work at 8:45 p. m.

Thirty-five minutes later, her body was found by her boyfriend.

Her door was also ajar.

On the surface, Tice and Gilmour appeared quite different.

There is no record of Susan and Erin having anything in common, Smith said.

There was, however, one notable difference in the two murder scenes.

Gilmours body was covered by a comforter, while there was nothing to cover Tices body.

Thats open to different streams of thought.

We are unsure the significance of the blanket over Erin, Smith said. It could have been shame or it could have been an attempt to conceal her body.

Arntfield doubts the killer felt any particular guilt or closeness to Gilmour.

This is more of a compulsion than any act of remorse, Arntfield says.

So why wasnt Tice covered too? One can only guess.

And where did the killer go after the two murders?

No third or fourth victim with the same DNA appeared in police databases. Is this simply a sign of Canadas relatively soft DNA testing procedure, compared to the U.S.?

Whoever killed Gilmour and Tice was obviously extremely angry. Both women were stabbed repeatedly. The word overkill has been used to describe the murders.

Did the killer just go away?

If so, where? Prison on another charge? Another country? The grave?

These two (murders) are related but theres no other crime scene that we know of, Arntfield said.

Since there was no sign of forced entry in either of their homes, its natural to assume that the killer was allowed inside and then attacked.

Tice and Gilmour were intelligent women. What sort of man would be able to easily enter both homes?

Did they have a common delivery person? Repair person? Arntfield asks.

Could the killer have been an electrical worker? Plumber? Property manager?

There are countless potential names, Arntfield says. What happened to this person?

Both women were relative newcomers to their homes.

In the month before her death, Tice had moved to Toronto from Calgary after splitting from her husband.

Gilmour had barely settled into her apartment on Hazelton Avenue in the two months before her death.

Could the killer have something to do with the moving business?

They were both attacked in a new home where they should have felt safe.

Gilmours aunt Shelagh Vansittart told Judy Nyman of the Star shortly after her murder that she was a gentle person and by no means a spoiled brat or a socialite.

She was one of the sweetest, most understated girls you could find, her aunt told Nyman. She was always thinking of things she could do for you.

Gilmours aunt ran a furniture store on Hazelton, steps from Erins new home.

The reason she lived here was because she was surrounded by us and we felt she was protected by us, Vansittart said.

Did the killer live near Gilmour and Tice? The two murder sites were just a few kilometres apart.

Gilmour had recently gotten obscene calls. This was in the days before ubiquitous cell phones. Her phone number wasnt listed.

Tracking the killer is the sort of thing that haunts investigators.

Could he have been arrested since the murders? If so, was he savvy enough to plead out to a reduced charge to dodge a DNA testing order?

These people dont just stop after two, Arntfield said. The question is what happened to this person?

Police hope advances in DNA research lead them all the way to the killer.

Perhaps the answers may come from a form of DNA analysis called genetic genealogy.

Genetic genealogy draws from DNA voluntarily submitted for family tree research to sites like 23andMe or Ancestry.ca.

Earlier this year, Toronto police announced they used a genetic genealogy database to identify a homeless woman whose body was found in June 2020 with no identification and few belongings in Trinity Bellwoods Park.

The same technique also solved the 1984 murder of nine-year-old Christine Jessop of Queensville. Police announced in October 2020 that her killer was Calvin Hoover, a family acquaintance who committed suicide in 2015.

We are still working through the genetic process, Smith said. We are making good progress but there are a number of challenges that have made things difficult to account for. We are hoping to have answers for the families sometime in 2022.

Smith doesnt go into detail about the number of challenges that have made things difficult to account for.

This is still an open ongoing investigation, Smith said. The challenges will eventually be clarified but at this time all we can say is that there is significant challenges in the investigative process.

The murders of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice remain unsolved.

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A turtle feared to be locally extinct has been found to beplentifulenough to be shedding its DNA all over Australia's highest discharge river. The rediscovery of any species is good news for ecology, but the chelidae in question is a particular favorite for breathing through its rear end.

The lower Burdekin river is wide and muddy, and its turtles spend most of their time at depth, so it was only in 1990 that TV presenter Steve Irwin and his father captured one. On confirmation this was a new species it was named Irwin's turtle (Elseya irwini). Although subsequently found to inhabit the Burdekin's tributaries, it hasn't been seen in the lower Burdekin for more than 25 years, leading to fears it had lost its largest habitat

However, a paper in the journalBMC Ecology and Evolution has revealed proof the turtle remains present at many locations on the river. The evidence comes in the form of DNA found in water samples collected along the river.

Queensland freshwater turtles, including Irwin's, have developed a distinctive method of respiration to avoid having to come to the surface too often, thus cutting the risk of becoming someone else's lunch. They absorb water through their cloaca (the hole reptiles and birds use for reproduction and defecation). Gill-like structures in their digestive tracts capture oxygen dissolved in the water.

No known turtle species can survive purely on its anally-sourced oxygen; they all have to come to the surface now and then to take in air in the usual way. However, bum-breathing delays the need to do so. Under the right conditions, some turtles can get 80 percent of their oxygen needs this way although the figure is lower for other species.

Bum-breathing requires oxygen-rich water, however, which requires fast-moving streams. It was feared a dam on the Mary River might drive that catchment's species to extinction by lowering the oxygen supply. The campaign to stop the dam, in which the unusual and endangered turtle took a starring role, was the first time their capacity had become widely known outside herpetological circles.

Consequently, there were fears the Burdekin Falls Dam, completed in 1987, might have started a fatal decline in Irwin's turtle numbers on that river. However, Dr Cecilia Villacorta-Rath,Professor Damien Burrows, and co-authors sampled 37 sites along the Burdekin River and its tributaries, and the presence of turtle DNA was found throughout the catchment.

That doesn't mean the turtle is unaffected by the dam. Samples taken in the Broken and Bowen tributary rivers were more frequently positive for turtle DNA, indicating greater abundance there than below the dam. Nevertheless, turtle DNA was found at four sites below the dam, but above the confluence with the Bowen River.

"Until this rediscovery, we didn't have any formal records to prove that the Irwin's turtle was still living in the lower Burdekin River, and that river has changed a lot since the construction of the Burdekin Falls Dam," Burrows said in a statement. "It's reassuring to know they are still living there."

Irwin's turtles share the lower Burdekin with crocodiles, discouraging scientists from diving into the waters. The murkiness of the river below the falls makes underwater cameras useless, and all that bum-breathing limits opportunities to spot them at the surface. The capacity to collect environmental DNA (eDNA) and magnify it to the point its source can be determined has proven a game-changer for finding the turtles, just as it has been for extinct human species. All we had to do was take awater sampleand analyze for their DNA," Burrows said.

"We don't know anything about the demographics of this population, Vilacorata-Rath said, but the fact they are still alive proves further work is not fruitless.

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Archaeologists and members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe worked together on the project, which revealed the longstanding genetic roots of the region's Native peoples. Courtesy of Far Western Anthropological Research Group

For decades, a misperception that the San Francisco Bay Areas Muwekma Ohlone Tribe was extinct barred its living members from receiving federal recognition.

Soon, however, that might change. As Celina Tebor reports for USA Today, a new DNA analysis shows a genetic through line between 2,000-year-old skeletons found in California and modern-day Muwekma Ohlone people.

The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, flies in the face of more than a century of misconceptions about the tribe and its peoples long history.

The study reaffirms the Muwekma Ohlones deep-time ties to the area, providing evidence that disagrees with linguistic and archaeological reconstructions positing that the Ohlone are late migrants to the region, write the authors in the paper.

Members of the tribe, scholars and the public are hailing the work as a chance to correct the recordand perhaps open up opportunities for the tribe to regain federal recognition, which allows tribes to qualify for federal funds and grants and be acknowledged as independent and sovereign. In the early 20th century, the tribe was on a federal list of recognized tribes, but was removed in 1927.

The tribes history mirrors that of other Native Californians. After more than 10,000 years in the area, Native people were forced to submit to colonization and Christian indoctrinationfirst by the Spaniards, who arrived in 1776, and then, beginning in the 19th century, by settlers from the growing United States.

As a result, the Ohlone and other Native groups lost significant numbers to disease and forced labor. Before European contact, at least 300,000 Native people who spoke 135 distinct dialects lived in what is now California, per the Library of Congress. By 1848, that number had been halved. Just 25 years later, in 1873, only 30,000 remained. Now, USA Today reports, there are just 500 members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.

The Ohlone people once lived on about 4.3 million acres in the Bay Area. But federal negligence and anthropologist A.L. Kroebers 1925 assessment that Native Californians were extinct for all practical purposes caused the federal government to first strip the Muwekma Ohlone of their land, then deny them federal recognition, writes Les W. Field, a cultural anthropologist who collaborates with the Muwekma Ohlone, in the Wicazo Sa Review.

Even though Kroeber recanted his erroneous statement in the 1950s, the lasting damage from his diagnosis meant the very much not-extinct members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe never regained federal recognition, according to the New York Times Sabrina Imbler.

The new research could change that. It arose after the 2014 selection of a site for a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission educational facility. The area likely contained human remains, triggering a California policy that requires developers to contact the most likely descendants of people buried in Native American sites before digging or building. When officials contacted the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, its members requested a study of two settlement areasSi Tupentak (Place of the Water Round House Site) and Rummey Ta Kuuwi Tiprectak (Place of the Stream of the Lagoon Site).

Experts from Stanford University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, cultural resources consulting firm Far Western Anthropological Research Group and other institutions led the research.

But members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe were involved in every aspect of the study, from the initiative to pursue the project to the selection of research questions, in archaeological excavation and ancient genomics involving sites in their historical lands, and in present-day genomic analysis with current tribal members, according to the study. Tribal members even helped exhume the bodies.

Researchers and tribe members alike commented on the unique nature of the collaboration.

When youre a student doing the work, its not common to have this kind of direct connection to the people who are the data that youre working with, says lead author Alissa Severson, a doctoral student at Stanford University at the time of the research, in a statement. We got to have that dialogue, where we could discuss what were doing and what we found, and how that makes sense with their history. I felt very lucky to be working on this project. It felt like what we should be doing.

Jennifer A. Raff, a paleogeneticist at the University of Kansas who was not involved in the study, describes the work as fascinating.

If other tribes are interested in using genetics to investigate histories, they may be encouraged by the fact that some researchers are doing this work in a careful way, Raff tells Science magazines Andrew Curry.

The team analyzed the DNA of 12 individuals buried between 300 and 1,900 years ago, then compared the genomes to those of a variety of Indigenous Americans. They found genetic continuity between all 12 individuals studied and eight modern-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe members.

It was surprising to find this level of continuity given the many disruptions the Ohlone people experienced during Spanish occupation, such as forced relocations and admixture with other tribes forcibly displaced by the Spanish, co-author Noah Rosenberg, a population geneticist at Stanford, tells the New York Times.

Tribe members hope the new evidence of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribes longstanding connection to the landand their ancestorswill spur politicians to finally recognize the tribe. According to an official tribal website, Muwekma Ohlone families started the reapplication process in the early 1980s and officially petitioned the U.S. government for recognition in 1995. Despite filing a lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the tribe is still not recognized by the U.S. government.

Co-author Alan Leventhal, a tribal ethnohistorian and archaeologist who works with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, tells USA Today hes hopeful this new research will help cut through some of the bureaucratic red tape thats been delaying the tribes petition.

Privately, this further validates the tribe, he says. Now, as politicians are reading, they're noticing. And now we'll be lending support for the tribe's reaffirmation.

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FARGO Nobody knows for sure why the baby was left on the doorsteps of the Church of Ascension on North Bryant Avenue in Minneapolis in 1967, other than perhaps the mother was active in that Catholic church and had a sense of comfort that things would work out. Thats where the life of Jonathan Wright began.

He was adopted by two loving parents the father a publisher of three small newspapers in the Twin Cities but both passed away around 20 years ago. Wright always wondered about his biological parents but didnt want to pursue it for fear it would hurt his adoptive parents.

I didnt want to have them feel that I didnt want their love, he said.

After they died, at some point, he revisited the thought. He and his wife, Elva, were living in Ontario, Calif., when Jonathan saw a news segment aired Fridays on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles called Finding Family, where anchor Chris Schauble, who was adopted, talks about an organization that specializes in finding biological parents.

Thought turned to conversations on the topic with Elva. It would require an investment with an ancestry organization and in this case the Los Angeles firm of BirthParentFinder.com.

Elva gave her blessing but also gave Jonathan the following advice: You never know what youre going to find.

It could be Pandoras box, Jonathan said.

Jonathan teaches English and video in Guam, a United States territory located almost a half a world away in the western Pacific Ocean. One thing about modern science: distance doesnt matter.

Jonathan contracted with BirthParentFinder.com last October. Through DNA, in January, the news was quite startling.

Jonathan Wright found out he has a full brother, Jimmie Lee Bishop, living in the Twin Cities. He found out he has a half brother, Thomas Moede, living in Georgia. Both Moede and Bishop previously took DNA tests.

Furthermore, the DNA system identified the father of all three boys. He was former North Dakota State All-American running back Paul Hatchett.

Well it was just confounding, Bishop said. It was like, wow. But you see it all the time, you see these stories and I never imagined I would have one of these stories too with a long-lost brother I never knew about.

Hatchett was a star at Minneapolis Central High School. NCAA rules prohibited freshmen from playing back then but from 1967-69 he ran for 2,309 yards, a Bison career record that stood until the mid-1980s.

He held 15 school rushing and scoring records at one time including single-season marks of 1,213 yards and 17 touchdowns in 1968. His 41 touchdowns in that three-year period was another career record.

It was the beginning of NDSU football dominance that is alive and well at the Division I FCS level. The Bison were 29-1 with national titles in 1968 and 1969. They were second in the national wire service poll in 1967.

But Hatchett left NDSU after the 1969 season and was never heard from again in Fargo, perhaps disappointed the NFL didnt come calling. Wright would someday like to see old film footage of his biological father, if it exists. His initial online research into Hatchett took him to a small college All-American list.

I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan and to see his name next to Terry Bradshaw (Louisiana Tech) was pretty cool, he said.

The question for both brothers, however, is why? Why did their mother leave Jonathan on the church doorstep? Its not a subject for conversation and, with the mother having health issues, may never be known.

There was no such thing as a safe haven law, a stipulation that allows a parent to surrender an infant without facing prosecution for abandonment.

Back in that time period, there was no sanctuary where you could drop off a child at a hospital, fire station or police station with no questions asked, said Jay Rosenzweig, the founder and CEO of BirthParentFinder.com.

Wright thinks there was more of a plan to it. He appreciates his adoptive parents, saying they did a better job than perhaps his real mother could because of a lack of resources. Bishop, who remains in touch with his mom, has heard little by little of a few clues.

She was telling stories of how she was feeling at the time, he said. She was saying at one time she didnt want to interfere with Pauls football career. And it kind of started making a little more sense, she was trying not to hinder him from going on and playing football because he loved it so much.

Whatever the case, the brothers plan on getting together in person for the first time in July in the Twin Cities. It promises to be an emotional union of siblings.

There is no sugar coating it for the boys: their father had off-the-field issues. For whatever reason, he never got a shot at pro football. There were run-ins with law enforcement in Fargo, a demon that would follow him until he died of natural causes in 2013 at the age of 64 in Savannah, Ga. Childhood friend Gregory Washington, who spoke to Hatchett a year before he died, said Hatchett had regrets that things didnt go a different way.

Wright learned of his fathers past from online links that Bishop sent him.

It was surprising, kind of bittersweet, he said. It was really stunning to hear. Im thinking he was one phone call or bad decision away from an incredible career in the NFL. I tell my students: do today what others wont so tomorrow you can do what others can. We talk about how a decision you make today can impact your career.

Bishop takes a more personal approach. He and his mother lived in north Minneapolis, but seeing her son running the streets more to her liking, they moved to the north suburb of Coon Rapids.

He had a few conversations with Hatchett over the years, like the one time as a young boy both were walking through a gym and somebody asked Hatchett if he still had it.

He took a basketball and dunked it, Bishop said. He was super strong and muscular. He kind of seemed like a superhero.

Hatchett was 5-foot-9 and at NDSU was listed at 195 pounds.

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Bishop was around 13 years old the last time he saw him. He was about 18 the last time they spoke on the phone.

I started drinking and was not on a very good path, Bishop said. He was like, I think I can help you out. I was like, Im grown and I dont need your help. I felt bad about that later on.

Later on, these days, Bishop is back in school at Metropolitan State in the Twin Cities working on a bachelors degree. At night he works with a local theater, a passion that may lead him and Jonathan to write a screenplay or play on their life story.

He has most of his classes done to go into addiction counseling but isnt sure he wants to continue to pursue it. But if he did, what would he theoretically tell his father?

Just to talk about things Ive learned, to open up those things inside, Bishop said. The secrets that keep us sick. Figure out the reasons why? When its all by itself deep inside, everything seems scary in the dark when youre all alone. When you bring it out and deal with other people, its easier to come back. The more people on your team, the more you dont feel so alone and isolated.

All involved agree Hatchett must have felt alone and isolated. There were signs of positivity, like telling a Forum reporter in 1969 he wanted to get into social work. He worked with underprivileged kids at the Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis.

Wright thinks his biological father had a Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde-type of personality.

He was well-loved during the day, friends speak highly of him, he said. But at night time this character came out. Why did he go down that road? Guess well never know.

What the brothers do know is theyre thankful theyve found each other.

I cant say enough about that, Wright said. It provides closure because its something Ive always wondered about growing up.

They Zoom call each other. Its not easy with Wright being in Guam and the time zone change, but they try to connect every Sunday at 7 a.m. for Wright, which is Saturday in the Twin Cities for Bishop.

Bishop says the best comfort for him is knowing Jonathan grew up with a good life and continues to succeed. It was some upbringing; he was one of six kids Hardy and Elizabeth adopted from different backgrounds while living in Mendota Heights, Minn.

Jonathans sister, Beverly, discovered her grandfather was a chief on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Jonathans brother Mark is of Lakota descent who died of a gunshot wound in 1980 on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

His sister, Tamara, retired after working for the city of St. Paul for 36 years and is a cancer survivor. His oldest brother, Donald, was born partially blind and with facial paralysis.

When the adoption agency asked my parents what kind of children they wanted, Jonathan said, they responded the ones that need the most help.

The only help Jonathan, Jimmie Lee and Thomas need now is finding time to connect. When Jonathan and Jimmie Lee first talked, they noticed right away both like to joke and have fun.

We both seem really similar personality-wise, Bishop said. Hes a talker. One of the first things he said is youll have to excuse my sense of humor and Im like, thats not going to be a problem. Hell say something smart and Ill say something witty and our mother would do that, too. That is really amazing to me. The DNA doesnt lie.

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And neither do the photos. When Bishop showed photos of him and Jonathan to a third party Hatchett was Black and their mother is Caucasian the response was that can be your own twin. The noses are different but the facial structure is very similar.

The mother was 21 years old at the time Wright was born. Perhaps football was already in his blood. He knew every running back and every quarterback on every NFL team. He played the sport in high school but not beyond.

Bishop never really got into sports, but baseball was his favorite. He said a high school football coach wouldnt let him try out.

The bond of the brothers, however, is not about football. Its about, well, being brothers. Finally after all these years.

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Even if the aliens are short, dour and sexually obsessed, the late cosmologist Carl Sagan once mused, if theyre here, I want to know about them.

Driven by the same mindset, a Nasa-led team of international scientists has developed a new message that it proposes to beam across the galaxy in the hope of making first contact with intelligent extraterrestrials.

The interstellar missive, known as the Beacon in the Galaxy, opens with simple principles for communication, some basic concepts in maths and physics, the constituents of DNA, and closes with information about humans, the Earth, and a return address should any distant recipients be minded to reply.

The group of researchers, headed by Dr Jonathan Jiang at Nasas Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, says that with technical upgrades the binary message could be broadcast into the heart of the Milky Way by the Seti Institutes Allen Telescope Array in California and the 500-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope in China.

In a preliminary paper, which has not been peer reviewed, the scientists recommend sending the message to a dense ring of stars near the centre of the Milky Way a region deemed most promising for life to have emerged. Humanity has, we contend, a compelling story to share and the desire to know of others and now has the means to do so, the scientists write.

The message, if it ever leaves Earth, would not be the first. The Beacon in the Galaxy is loosely based on the Arecibo message sent in 1974 from an observatory of the same name in Puerto Rico. That targeted a cluster of stars about 25,000 light years away, so it will not arrive any time soon. Since then, a host of messages have been beamed into the heavens including an advert for Doritos and an invitation, written in Klingon, to a Klingon Opera in The Hague.

Such attempts at interstellar communication are not straightforward. The odds of an intelligent civilisation intercepting a message may be extremely low, and even if contact were made, establishing a fruitful conversation could prove frustrating when a response can take tens of thousands of years. Aliens may not even understand the signal: as a test run for the Arecibo message, Frank Drake, its designer, posted the missive to some scientific colleagues, including a number of Nobel laureates. None of them understood it.

There are other concerns, too. More than a decade ago, Prof Stephen Hawking warned that humans should refrain from sending messages into space in case they attract the wrong sort of attention. If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didnt turn out well for the Native Americans, he told a Discovery channel documentary.

But Dr Jiang and his colleagues argue that an alien species capable of communication across the cosmos may well have learned the value of peace and collaboration, and humanity could have much to learn from them. We believe the advancements of science that can be achieved in pursuit of this task, if communication were to be established, would vastly outweigh the concerns, they write.

Dr Anders Sandberg, a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, said: My view is that the overall risk and benefit of sending messages are both small; it is better and safer for us to move out into space and hopefully, eventually, find neighbours when we are both adult species.

But he said it was worthwhile to think over how we may communicate with aliens. I think it is something we should regard as training for learning to coordinate better as a species, he added.

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In the 1990s, the dawn of DNA analysis in Orange County, forensic scientist Mary Hong was the queen of the cold case.

Arriving at the Orange County Crime Lab in 1985 with her bachelor of science degree in criminalistics from Michigan State University Hong became a forensic star in latex gloves.

She led the way in solving stagnant, high-profile murder cases at the lab, the first local law enforcement DNA laboratory in the western United States. By 2005, she had testified more than 100 times in DNA cases.

The high point of her career: Hong linked four unsolved rape-murders in Orange County to killings in Northern California, helping to identify one of the worst serial killers in state history. Her work eventually aided in the capture of Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo, who would later plead guilty to 13 murders and dozens of rapes in the 1970s and 80s.

In 1996, Hong submitted Orange County samples to the states fledgling DNA database and solved six murders right off the bat, according to the late author Michelle McNamara.

McNamara prominently featured Hong in the book Ill Be Gone in The Dark, about the hunt for the Golden State Killer. Hong also has appeared in the television shows Unsolved Mysteries, Cold Case Files and Dateline.

Assigned in 1997 to a team formed to concentrate on old murders, Hong was, in the words of one top public defender, Orange Countys cold case closer.

She was a pioneer in the most advanced forms of DNA testing and analyzed the blood evidence that proved a dead woman found in an Arizona freezer was actually killed in Orange County. That finding meant that defendant John Famalaro should be tried in Santa Ana, not Arizona. Famalaro was given the death penalty in 1997 for the slaying of 23-year-old Denise Huber.

Crime writers described the lab-coated Hong as methodical and intrepid, having a scientists dispassion. In one case, a prosecutor speaking to the jury likened the work done by Hong and the crime lab to Galileo and Copernicus.

But now, Hongs reputation as a scientist and leader among California forensic experts she is the former president of the statewide association of criminalists is under attack.

Hong, who left Orange County five years ago to run a lab for the California Department of Justice, faces allegations that she cooked the books in one recent murder case that unraveled midtrial. The case also has brought renewed attention to two other murder cases in which she was accused by the defense of tailoring her analyses to benefit the prosecution.

She uses the science to come to a preconceived answer, charged Assistant Public Defender Chuck Hasse. She cooked the books.

In response, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer has launched a probe into local cases new and old in which Hong testified or provided forensic opinions. And the Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office is considering a potential review of at least five cases in which she worked on behalf of the agency.

Hong did not respond to an email seeking comment.

At issue in the most recent Orange County case, involving a decades-old murder of a young Buena Park woman, is whether Hong deliberately tweaked DNA evidence in favor of the prosecution and then backed away from that analysis when it came time to testify in a second trial. Or was it just a matter of interpretation in a complicated field?

The answer lies in a forensic world that is not always black and white, but often gray.

The data is the data, but the interpretation of the data can be skewed by the person interpreting it, said Tiffany Roy, a former DNA lab worker, lawyer and forensics expert from West Palm Beach, Florida. The lawyers think DNA is black and white and they dont know how gray DNA can be.

Scott Sanders, assistant Orange County public defender, has been sparring for more than 13 years with the local Crime Lab, which is operated by the Sheriffs Department.

For nearly two decades Hong was the Crime Labs cold case closer and she clearly relished that role, which is the problem, Sanders said. The Crime Lab should not see itself as a loyal member of the prosecution team. A functioning crime lab must serve as a check on those who want to manipulate science for the sake of a conviction. When thats not the case, scientists become the most dangerous players in the criminal justice system.

As president of the California Association of Criminalists, Hong warned in the groups newsletter in 2009 that forensic scientists need to be vigilant in protecting the integrity of their work.

We need to examine and analyze evidence without compromising its integrity, she wrote. We are required to have an in-depth understanding of the scientific processes that we utilize and be able to relay the significance of the results (and) we must ensure that the methods we use are validated and proper controls are in place to guarantee the results are accurate.

But Hongs integrity is under assault in the case against Daniel McDermott, accused of the rape and murder of an 18-year-old Buena Park woman in 1988. The case languished until 2009, when Hong conducted an analysis of DNA found on the victims right wrist.

After McDermott was arrested in 2012, Hong reinterpreted the data by removing genetic markers found in the first analysis. Those deleted markers would have shown McDermott was not a match or that the sample was, at least, inconclusive, said his defense attorney, Hasse.

Hong testified in 2016 that McDermotts DNA was a match for the sample found on the victims arm. But the trial ended in a hung jury.

When it came time for a new trial this month, Hong told prosecutors she could not repeat her testimony on the DNA from the wrist. Without that testimony, the D.A. was forced to offer McDermott a plea bargain that allowed him to be immediately released with nine years time served. McDermott had been facing life in prison without parole.

Suzanna Ryan, a forensics expert hired by the McDermott defense, said Hong should never have reinterpreted her original analysis. Furthermore, Hong failed to get a second opinion on her reinterpretation, a violation of industry standards.

I do believe it was done deliberately, Ryan said.

She added, however, it is the only time she found evidence of cooking the data in the dozen or so analyses she reviewed by Hong.

I dont like what she did in this case, (but) I dont think she is consistently changing data, Ryan said.

Roy, the Florida expert, is not sure Hong did anything intentionally wrong in the McDermott case. I dont see anything that looks nefarious, said Roy, who is not involved in the case.

At the request of the Southern California News Group, Roy reviewed a forensic report done by the defense as well as a recording of Hong explaining to prosecutors why she was having trouble with her earlier testimony.

Roy said there was indeed a scientific basis for Hongs deletion of the genetic markers but barely.

Hong appeared to be operating on the fringe in disregarding the several markers that could have helped McDermott, labeling them as noise. Those markers could easily have been interpreted the other way, Roy said. She said Hong should have erred on the side of caution and included the markers, but was overly aggressive and may have succumbed to a bias for law enforcement.

Roy acknowledged forensic scientists often are pressured to overstep to give police and prosecutors what they want.

Analysts are faced with this every day. The pressure is high to operate on the fringe, Roy said. These analysts are pressured to have the answers.

In essence, scientists often want to be good teammates with law enforcement, she said. Its called confirmation bias.

They want to feel like they are helping the good guy, Roy said. You can see patterns that dont exist, its in the human mind. It happens more than people realize.

These prosecutors and defense need to stay away from these scientists and let the science speak for itself.

Sometimes when forensics experts on the witness stand go beyond what the analysis shows, no one in the courtroom knows enough to check them, Roy said. Defense attorneys dont always retain their own forensics experts, especially when the client is poor or indigent.

(Analysts) often know no one is checking on them, Roy said. There are a lot of overstatements. Theres a lot of pressure on these experts to fit into the prosecutors story.

In the McDermott case, prosecutors didnt talk to Hong for the second trial until the eve of her planned testimony. Hong said, in her recorded interview, she could not be sure the DNA standards had not changed since 2012, when she compared McDermotts DNA to the wrist swab from the victim.

I think Im over-thinking this, she said.

Hong told prosecutors she did not believe she had tailored her analysis to deliberately include McDermott. She said she didnt purposely disregard the disputed markers as noise to incriminate McDermott. She just didnt believe they were DNA, Hong told prosecutors.

She also said in their interview that she had tried earlier to set up a meeting with the prosecution team, but nothing was ever scheduled.

Even before the McDermott case collapsed, Hong was under fire for her contradictory testimony in two cases hinging on the age of semen found on the female murder victims. Both are Anaheim cold cases from the mid-1980s that were solved in the late 2000s.

In 1985 long before an arrest was made former Orange County criminalist Daniel Gammie concluded that semen found in murder victim Bridgett Lamon had not been deposited around the time of death, meaning she probably was not killed by the donor.

About 20 years later, the semen was tied to Lynn Dean Johnson, who was charged in the killing. Called to the witness stand, Gammie recanted his earlier analysis, saying the science had changed. He now believed the semen could have been deposited near the time of death, which would incriminate Johnson. Gammies then-supervisor, Hong, also testified to the same.

Despite the flip-flop, the Crime Lab never went back to review old convictions won using the antiquated science.

Months later, Hong wound up before the same judge to testify in another cold case with similar sperm evidence. This time she testified the semen could not have been deposited near the time of death, attorneys said.

Her analysis in that case allowed prosecutors to clear the victims boyfriend, whose semen was found in the victims underwear, and focus on suspect Wendell Lemond. Lemond was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life.

Sanders, one of Johnsons attorneys, said he used Hong and Gammies flip-flop to avoid the death penalty for his client. Lemonds conviction is under appeal.

Attorneys in the two murder cases did not know about the contradictory testimony until years after the trials when they found out by happenstance.

Orange County lab officials have said the semen samples studied by Hong in the Lemond and Johnson cases were different enough to warrant her conflicting testimony.

In her 2009 newsletter message, Hong speaks about the hardships faced by forensic scientists and the need to make the most of whatever evidence has been collected.

Sanders responded that making the most isnt always good.

Mary Hong certainly lived by these words. Now the question is whether our criminal justice system cares.

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DUBLIN, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Worldwide DNA Sequencing Industry to 2031: Trend Forecast and Growth Opportunity" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global DNA sequencing market will reach $52,278.1 million by 2031, growing by 15.4% annually over 2021-2031, driven by the significant technological advancements, the growth of large-scale sequencing initiatives and support by major governmental funding agencies, the rise in the prevalence of chronic diseases, and the rising applications of DNA sequencing for animal & plant reproduction.

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Based on Offering, the global market is segmented into the following sub-markets with annual revenue ($mn) for 2021-2031 included in each section.

Based on Sequencing Type, the global market is segmented into the following sub-markets with annual revenue ($mn) for 2021-2031 included in each section.

By Technology, the global market is segmented into the following sub-markets with annual revenue ($mn) for 2021-2031 included in each section.

By Application, the global market is segmented into the following sub-markets with annual revenue ($mn) for 2021-2031 included in each section.

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1 Introduction

2 Market Overview and Dynamics2.1 Market Size and Forecast2.1.1 Impact of COVID-19 on World Economy2.1.2 Impact of COVID-19 on the Market2.2 Major Growth Drivers2.3 Market Restraints and Challenges2.4 Emerging Opportunities and Market Trends2.5 Porter's Five Forces Analysis

3 Segmentation of Global Market by Offering3.1 Market Overview by Offering3.2 Instruments3.3 Consumables3.4 Sequencing Services

4 Segmentation of Global Market by Sequencing Type4.1 Market Overview by Sequencing Type4.2 Sanger Sequencing4.3 Next Generation Sequencing4.4 Other Sequencing Types

5 Segmentation of Global Market by Technology5.1 Market Overview by Technology5.2 Sequencing by Synthesis5.3 Ion Semiconductor Sequencing5.4 Chain Termination Sequencing5.5 Pyrosequencing5.6 Sequencing by Ligation (SBL)5.7 Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequencing (SMRT)5.8 Nanopore Sequencing5.9 Other Technologies

6 Segmentation of Global Market by Application6.1 Market Overview by Application6.2 Biomarker Discovery6.3 Diagnostics6.4 Personalized Medicine6.5 Reproductive Health6.6 Forensics6.7 Other Applications

7 Segmentation of Global Market by End User7.1 Market Overview by End User7.2 Academics and Research Organizations7.3 Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies7.4 Hospitals & Clinics7.5 Other End Users

8 Segmentation of Global Market by Region8.1 Geographic Market Overview 2021-20318.2 North America Market 2021-2031 by Country8.2.1 Overview of North America Market8.2.2 U.S.8.2.3 Canada8.2.4 Mexico8.3 European Market 2021-2031 by Country8.3.1 Overview of European Market8.3.2 Germany8.3.3 U.K.8.3.4 France8.3.5 Spain8.3.6 Italy8.3.7 Russia8.3.8 Rest of European Market8.4 Asia-Pacific Market 2021-2031 by Country8.4.1 Overview of Asia-Pacific Market8.4.2 Japan8.4.3 China8.4.4 Australia8.4.5 India8.4.6 South Korea8.4.7 Rest of APAC Region8.5 South America Market 2021-2031 by Country8.5.1 Argentina8.5.2 Brazil8.5.3 Chile8.5.4 Rest of South America Market8.6 MEA Market 2021-2031 by Country8.6.1 UAE8.6.2 Saudi Arabia8.6.3 South Africa8.6.4 Other National Markets

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