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It is hard to conceptualize anything positive coming from the death of JonBenet Ramsey or any child, anywhere. Sometimes we look back on those who have gone before us and remember what was learned as a result of their life or initiative to make the world a better place, memorializing the loss within something positive. Megan's Law. Adam Walsh Act. Amber Alerts. For JonBenet it very well may become recognition of advanced forensics such as TouchDNA or new mandates like the DNA Law- -

NCIS squad is dedicated to solving cold homicide cases
Published in Stars and Stripes
By Sandra Jontz

"Rosaline Horton says Christmas usually is the worst. And then there’s her son’s birthday.
But Horton, whose son James Alan Horton died 17 years ago at the hand of an unknown killer, says every day brings memories of her boy.

“If only we knew who killed him,” Horton said, her words barely audible across the telephone line.

“They’ve been working on this for 17 years. It’s hard for all of my family. It was hard for my husband, who died not knowing who killed his son.”...Investigators are hoping that advancements in DNA science will help them develop new leads in the Horton case, NCIS spokesman Ed Buice told The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier in November.

The touch DNA method analyzes skin cells left behind when assailants touch victims, weapons or something else at a crime scene, according to an article last year in Scientific American. The method was used in 2008 to exonerate the family of JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty queen from Boulder, Colo., whose parents and brother had been suspected in her 1996 slaying....[...read more]