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TECHNOLOGY/HEALTH Tuesday 7 april 2020
'Old school' technique helps expert ID remains from 1969

By HOLLY RAMER minutiae or individual char- correct comparison. When jaw and buck teeth. She to comment through in-
Associated Press acteristics myself," said I did it myself, I knew what I also noted that he had a vestigators, told authori-
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Timothy Jackson, who is was looking at." broken leg that had been ties they had contacted
Thanks to an old-fashioned law enforcement, the
fingerprint-matching tech- Salvation Army and the
nique, the remains of a Unsolved Mysteries televi-
shooting victim found sion show over the years
alongside a New Hamp- as they searched for him.
shire highway 50 years ago They told investigators Mor-
have been identified as ris had been released from
a Vermont man who had the Vermont State Prison
been released from prison on May 9, 1969, and spent
three months earlier, au- time in Boston the following
thorities said Monday. month and in Glastonbury,
The body of Winston "Skip" Connecticut, that July. He
Morris was discovered by a was last seen alive in Bur-
work crew in a water-filled lington, Vermont, on July
pit off Interstate 93 in Sa- 25, 1969. Jackson said final-
lem on Aug. 7, 1969. Morris, ly identifying the remains
30, of Barre, Vermont, had felt good for a number of
been shot at least six times reasons."We realize now
in the head. Fingerprints maybe the family's going to
were taken at the time, but get some closure," he said.
there were no state or na- "It definitely gave our Cold
tional databases to search. Case Unit at the attorney
After exhuming the body general's office help in their
in 2012, investigators ob- investigation and hopefully
tained new fingerprints This October 1962 photo released by the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office shows Winston solving this someday."
and submitted them to re- "Skip" Morris, whose remains were found along Interstate 93 in Salem, N.H., on Aug. 7, 1969. The Cold Case Unit was
gional databases and to Associated Press. created in 2009. In 2019, it
FBI system multiple times, solved its oldest crime, the
most recently in July. But scheduled to retire in June. The attorney general's Cold repaired with a surgical 52-year-old shooting death
they didn't get a match un- "When you're looking at Case Unit had been trying plate and screws. of an auto repair shop work-
til a criminalist at the New a finger that's been in the to identify the remains for A forensic artist later creat- er in Andover. Investigators
Hampshire State Police Fo- ground since 1969, the epi- years. Those efforts includ- ed a facial reconstruction said Thomas Cass, 67, of
rensic Lab manually plot- dermal layer of skin is gone. ed an examination by Uni- of the man's skull, and a Orleans, Vermont, killed Ev-
ted the characteristics from What we're truly looking at versity of Maine anthropol- DNA profile was submitted erett Delano, 49. Cass killed
one of Morris's fingers. is the inner layer," he said in ogist Marcella Sorg, who to a database of profiles himself in 2014, four days af-
"I chose to play old school, a phone interview Monday. provided a fuller picture of developed from people ter authorities told him that
I'm not a youngster, so I "It was off enough that the the man's appearance, in- looking for missing relatives. evidence linked him to the
went back to plotting the system couldn't make the cluding his over-sized lower Morris' family, who declined murder.q
What to know about malaria drug and coronavirus treatment

By The Associated Press nary studies give conflict- 31 others who did not get
undefined ing results. the drug, although fewer
Some politicians and doc- One lab study suggested it people in the comparison
tors are sparring over curbed the virus' ability to group had cough or fevers
whether to use hydroxy- enter cells. Another report to start with.
chloroquine against the on 11 people found it did Four people developed se-
new coronavirus, with not improve how fast pa- vere illness and all were in
many of scientists saying tients cleared the virus or the group that did not get
the evidence is too thin to their symptoms. the drug. These results were
recommend it now. A report from China posted online and have
HOW IS IT BEING USED? claimed the drug helped not been reviewed by oth-
The drug can help tame more than 100 patients at er scientists or published in
an overactive immune sys- 10 hospitals, but they had a journal.
tem. It's been used since various degrees of illness Larger, more rigorous stud-
the 1940s to prevent and and were treated with ies are underway now.
treat malaria, and to treat various doses for different WHAT'S THE RISK?
rheumatoid arthritis and lengths of time, and might The drug can cause heart
lupus. It's sold in generic have recovered without rhythm problems, severely
form and under the brand the drug — there was no low blood pressure and
name Plaquenil in the Unit- group that didn't get the muscle or nerve damage.
ed States. Doctors also can drug for comparison. Taking it outside of a scien-
prescribe it "off label" for Finally, researchers in China tific experiment adds the
other purposes, as many reported that cough, pneu- risk of not having tracking in
are doing now for COV- In this March 31, 2020 file photo pharmacist Amanda Frank monia and fever seemed place to watch for any of
ID-19. reaches for a bottle of Hydroxychloroquine at the Medicine to improve sooner among these side effects or prob-
WHAT'S THE EVIDENCE? Shoppe in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 31 patients given hydroxy- lems and quickly address
Four small and very prelimi- Associated Press. chloroquine compared to them if they do occur. q