Greeley police are looking for extra data on a person whose DNA just lately matched to a suspect in a 2001 youngster kidnapping and intercourse assault case.
Within the morning hours of Sept. 18, 2001, a 7-year-old woman and her 8-year-old brother had been strolling to highschool on ninth Road close to fifth Avenue in northeast Greeley, the place a person ready close to an alley acquired out and compelled the woman into his automotive. He took her to a secluded space south of the Greeley airport, the place he sexually assaulted her. The woman escaped to the Air Nationwide Guard gate close to the airport, the place police had been referred to as. Bodily proof was collected, however a suspect hadn’t been recognized for almost 20 years.
The woman may solely describe the suspect as a light-skinned man across the age of 25 who spoke a little bit Spanish and had a foul complexion. She additionally stated he may need had a tattoo of a snake on his forearm.
In August 2019, Greeley police requested the providers of Parabon NanoLabs, a Virginia-based DNA tech firm that makes a speciality of DNA phenotyping by means of its service referred to as “Snapshot.” The method makes use of unidentified DNA proof to foretell bodily look and ancestry, serving to police slim suspect lists and generate leads. Police famous no non-public industrial DNA service databases, akin to 23andMe or AncestryDNA, had been used throughout the investigation.
Snapshot produced trait predictions to depict what the particular person of curiosity may need regarded like at 25 years previous with a mean body-mass index of twenty-two. Predictions included ancestry, eye shade, hair shade, pores and skin shade, freckling and face form. Snapshot additionally developed an age development of the particular person of curiosity to 45, giving police pictures of what the particular person of curiosity may need regarded like each on the time of the assault and nearer to right now.
Police famous the composites are approximations primarily based on DNA and that they’re unlikely to be actual replicas, since environmental elements and issues together with facial hair, coiffure and scars can’t be predicted.
In February 2020, Greeley police launched Snapshot’s prediction outcomes, requesting the general public to supply any suggestions that might assist resolve the case.
With the Snapshot predictions, Parabon carried out genetic genealogical analysis, growing data resulting in Jaime “James” Zamora, who was 26 years previous in 2001 and lived in Greeley at the moment. Detectives decided Zamora couldn’t be excluded from consideration.
Zamora died in 2014 whereas dwelling in Wellington. Proof from his post-mortem was collected and despatched to the Northern Colorado Regional Forensic Laboratory, the place a standard DNA evaluation was carried out. Zamora’s DNA matched the suspect DNA collected in 2001. Police notified the sufferer and her household of the invention.
Zamora was a loner estranged from his household, in accordance with police. In 2001, he was working for a neighborhood sandwich store now not working in Greeley.
Police are looking for extra details about Zamora and ask that anybody who knew him or had interactions with him contact Greeley Police Detective Robert Money at (970) 350-9601.
