GAMBIER, Ohio ( WCMH ) – The Knox County Sheriff’s Office is hoping to crack a 15-year-old cold case homicide through the use of a relatively new technology that predicts the face of a suspect using DNA.
Detectives have requested the assistance of Parabon Nanolabs, a Virginia-based private company that provides DNA services to law enforcement, in the homicide of Jean Davis, 54.
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On Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009, at about 10:54 a.m., the sheriff’s office received a call that Davis was found unresponsive in the backyard of her residence, located on the 24000 block of Dennis Church Road. She was discovered by friends from her church, according to Detective Kenneth Urand.
Once deputies arrived, they determined Davis suffered a gunshot wound to her head and was dead. Law enforcement also learned that her tan truck, a 2002 Chevy Avalanche Z71, was missing. The next day, her vehicle was found about 20 miles away…