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TIL - TIL -Peter Reyn-Bardt confessed to the murder of his missing wife based on human remains found by workmen behind his back garden. The remains were later carbon dated and found to be Roman. Reyn-Bardt was convicted of his wifes murder based on his confession.

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ANKva TIL in 1998, the FBI sought to extract DNA from the cigarette butts smoked in 1971 by the unidentified airline hijacker known only as D.B. Cooper, but discovered the butts had been destroyed while in the custody of the Las Vegas field office.
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