Child Abduction Case Study

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In an Oklahoma City suburban area, police arrested a man in an 18 year old child abduction. On 1997, Kristen Hatfield, 8 years old at that time were abducted from her home. Her window was cracked open and her underwear were found in the backyard from then on they did not find Kristen. Last June, the case were revisited and the new investigator found out that some of the evidences were not tested and those evidences led to Kristen’s former neighbor, 56-year-old Anthony Joseph Palma. The authorities charged him of kidnapping and murder because theu believed that Kristen is dead. Technology was not advanced like it is today by using their new technology they matched the DNA blood that they found on the cracked window and Kristen’s underwear then

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