Parabon’s Snapshot™ Reveals New Clues in 27-Year Old Cold Case

By Laura Burgess

Working with the Fort Wayne, Indiana Police Department, Parabon’s Snapshot DNA Phenotyping service generates a composite image from DNA linked to the unsolved murder of April Tinsley

Reston, Va. (Ammoland.com) – Parabon NanoLabs, Inc. (Parabon) announced today that the company’s Snapshot^™ DNA Phenotyping Service (Snapshot) recently provided the Fort Wayne, Indiana Police Department with new clues about the murder of April Tinsley from DNA evidence linked to the crime.

On 11 April 1988 in south-central Fort Wayne, Indiana, April Tinsley, a first-grader, went to a friend’s house to pick up an umbrella and never returned home. Three days later, a jogger found her body in a ditch on a rural road in DeKalb County. Over subsequent years, the killer terrorized the community with multiple written threats against other children. In 2012, the case was featured on the television show America’s Most Wanted. Yet, despite ongoing efforts of local authorities and the FBI, the perpetrator remains at large.

In their continued search for April’s killer, Fort Wayne law enforcement personnel recently employed Snapshot, the latest innovation …read more

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