The wealthy Republican businessman is suspected of killing up to 25 young men and boys before he died by suicide after police discovered human remains on his estate in 1996.

Darylnn Washington was identified as the Jane Doe discovered on the east side of Detroit in June 2006, through a partnership between the Detroit Police Department and Othram Inc., a Texas-based forensic genetic genealogy firm specializing in advanced DNA testing, the company shared in a press release .

Authorities in Detroit have identified the remains of a woman found in an abandoned Detroit house nearly 20 years ago.

It's a criminal investigation breakthrough nearly two decades in the making. Advanced DNA identified the remains of a woman found in an abandoned Detroit house as Marilyn Washington.

Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they?