New Castle County Police say a collaborative effort involving investigators, professors and the community led to the identification of human remains found in Wilmington.
Paul Hicks was found guilty in the 2001 kidnapping and murder of his estranged wife Regina Hicks, after he drove her unconscious body into a pond and let her drown.
New Jersey State Police have identified the victim in a nearly 50-year-old homicide using advances in DNA testing and genetic genealogy.
The man accused of murdering a woman in Sussex County in 1990 was extradited to New Jersey, where he faced a judge on Monday morning.
New details have been revealed in the murder of a woman in New Jersey 35 years ago after a man in South Carolina was arrested last week.
The cases involve the killings of Marebeth Welsh in 1993 and Jennifer Persia in 1994. Authorities said advances in investigative genetic genealogy connected the crimes and pointed to the same individual as the suspect.