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Melissa Ann Smith, daughter of a Utah police chief, was killed in 1974; 52 years later, DNA tests confirm Ted Bundy did it

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Ted Bundy smiles during the second day of jury selection for his murder trial in a Dade County courtroom in Miami, June 27, 1979. (/POOL via AP)

Melissa Ann Smith’s body was found by a deer hunter in a remote forested area near Utah’s Park City on October 27, 1974. Nearly 52 years later, a DNA investigation made a breakthrough in the case, linking serial killer Ted Bundy to the murder conclusively. Ted Bundy smiles during the second day of jury selection … Read more

Who was Ann Mannix? All on ex-SFPD deputy chief shot dead alongside daughter by police sergeant husband in murder-suicide

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Who was Ann Mannix? All on ex-SFPD deputy chief shot dead by husband in murder-suicide (Linkedin/@AnnMannix)

A double murder-suicide has claimed the lives of former San Francisco Police Department Deputy Chief Ann Mannix, 65, and her 24-year-old daughter, Katherine “Katie” Mannix. Investigators said that Ann’s husband, former SFPD Sgt. Kevin Mannix, 68, shot the duo dead in a suspected double murder-suicide Sunday afternoon inside the family’s home on Strawberry Circle in … Read more

Ann Hammond spent years restoring her 12-acre Iowa property with native habitat; years later, a federally endangered bumblebee appeared among her flowers

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Ann Hammond spent years restoring her 12-acre Iowa property with native habitat; years later, a federally endangered bumblebee appeared among her flowers

Representative image Image credits: Wikimedia Commons For years, Ann Hammond worked to transform her 12-acre Iowa property into a welcoming place for native plants and wildlife. The effort eventually brought an extraordinary visitor to her flowers: a rusty patched bumblebee, a species listed as federally endangered in the United States. As reported by Iowa Public … Read more

Meet Meera Ramaswami: The Ann Arbor inventor who turned her grandmother’s fall into a patented mobility device and launched a company

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Meet Meera Ramaswami: The Ann Arbor inventor who turned her grandmother’s fall into a patented mobility device and launched a company

Meera Ramaswami, Founder at CargilityPhoto: Meera Ramaswami/ LinkedIn A fall while getting out of a car changed the direction of Meera Ramaswami’s life. She watched her grandmother lose her balance during a moment that should have been routine, then saw the injury heal while the fear remained. Her grandmother became less willing to travel, and … Read more