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Cold Case

Orchid Cellmark's Cold Case program provides testing of evidence from property locker rooms to help solve old crimes.

A Cold Case program can work for you because:

DNA is highly stable and remains unaffected when stored in typical property room conditions
Even degraded material can usually be successfully tested
New technologies may allow success with samples that may not have previously yielded results

The Statistics Pertaining to Cold Cases:

Evidence in more than 500,000 cases remains untested
More than 220,000 rape kits remain untested
60,000 homicide and violent crime cases are backlogged

What Orchid Cellmark Can Offer:

Evidence screening services to assess which pieces of evidence may contain DNA
A track record: Orchid Cellmark has obtained DNA results in thousands of sexual assault cold cases
A full panel of DNA technologies to achieve results in the maximum number of cases

Download a Cold Case program brochure