Two murders, eight years apart, have been connected, by DNA evidence. 11-year-old Holly Staker was raped and killed while babysitting in Waukegan back in 1992. Delwin Foxworth was beaten to death with a board in 2000. DNA taken from holly's body, and the More than two decades after 11-year-old Holly Staker was raped and killed in what became one of Lake County's most contentious prosecutions, DNA evidence from her 1992 case has been matched to a potential suspect in a second slaying that took place nearly a decade later, attorneys said Tuesday. DNA evidence from blood obtained from a two-by-four used to beat Delwin Foxworth in early 2000 before he was doused with gasoline and set on fire matches DNA from semen taken from Holly's body, according to the attorneys and court documents. A lawyer for the man convicted of Foxworth's murder said the evidence shows that his client, Marvin Tyrone Williford, is innocent as he has long insisted. The DNA match also buttresses evidence that Juan Rivera was wrongly convicted of Holly's rape and murder and that the failure to identify and arrest her real killer allowed that same person to take part in Foxworth's murder eight years later, … Continue reading →

DNA diet sees those who want to lose weight eat food based on genes Dieters put on one of five eating plans based on a mouth swab test Experts claim obese patients lost 33 per cent more weight on plan By Sophie Borland Published: 18:08 EST, 13 June 2014 | Updated: 03:22 EST, 16 June 2014 166 shares 58 View comments Those of the DNA diet lost 33 per cent more weight than those on standard plans (library image) A DNA diet, in which you eat certain foods based on your genes, could help you to lose a third more weight than calorie counting, experts claim. They put dieters on one of five eating plans based on the results of a mouth swab test. Obese patients using these plans lost 33 per cent more weight than those on standard diets, they said. Read the original post: DNA diet could help you lose 33% more weight … Continue reading →

Cristobal James Flores is seen in this undated photo. ( (Longmont Times-Call | Courtesy Photo)) One morning early this month, a sense of purpose propelled Margaret Sanchez and her adult daughter, Veronica Ruiz Montano, haltingly up a steep hill whose footpath is a vague promise. They had dreaded this day, slept fitfully the night before, yet embraced their short trek as a necessary thing. The soft ground shifted beneath them as they sought footholds and rose above the Silver Saddle Motel on the west edge of Boulder and headed for a ridgeline that points a more gradual upward route. Beth Buchholtz, formerly a coroner's investigator, led the way. She had hiked this route in the late summer of 2002 to examine and catalog a set of unidentified remains. Now, having reviewed old Global Positioning System readings and scouted the area two days earlier, she led the two women back to the site of an investigation that, for more than a decade, had led nowhere. She pointed toward the brown tip of a dead Douglas fir that poked above the ridgeline as a reference point. Moments later, the group descended into a narrow drainage. The previous year's floodwaters had raged through … Continue reading →