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The Health Ministry said Sunday that it is preparing to open the grave of a baby who died in 1952 next week to confirm to the boy’s surviving family of Yemenite immigrants that he really is buried there, and was not spirited away from them 64 years ago.

The planned procedure will mark the first time that a grave is opened for DNA testing in the Yemenite children affair, the decades-old claim by immigrants who arrived from Yemen that their children and siblings were kidnapped from them as babies in the 1950s.

The child is Uziel Houri, and he is buried in the Segula cemetery in the central city of Petah Tikvah. Five families related to Houri asked for and received a court order permitting the exhumation.

According to state records, Houri was born in 1952 and died a year later of illness.

Authorities are scheduled to open the grave on Monday next week and take a DNA sample from the remains for the purpose of establishing family authentication, the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry said it was acting under a law passed four years ago that permits opening a grave in order to carry out genetic testing to determine family ties.

The ministry said it had backed legislation enabling exhumations “out of a desire to reach the truth and to remove suspicions of the families regarding the identity of their loved ones.”

Under an agreement between the Houri family and state authorities, the DNA sampling will be done at the state-operated Abu…

PHOENIX – Shortly after the man who killed her sister 44 years ago was executed, Leslie James stepped up to a podium at the Arizona state prison complex in Florence and tearfully told the world all that Clarence Dixon had taken.

James, Deana Bowdoin’s older sister and lone sibling, spoke about the young woman who was poised to leave college for what was certain to be a bright future.

Dixon took that away, raping and strangling 21-year-old Deana Bowdoin on Jan. 7, 1978, in her apartment near Arizona State University’s main campus in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe. She was a semester away from graduating.

Dixon died Wednesday in Arizona’s first execution in nearly eight years and the nation’s sixth this year. At 66 and nearly blind, he had been in prison most of his adult life — first sentenced to life for a 1985 rape of a Northern Arizona University student and then sentenced to death when DNA evidence reexamined by cold case detectives in 2001 inextricably linked him to Bowdoin’s rape and murder. He was convicted in 2008.

James noted it took jurors just 17 minutes to return the verdict.

It took “way, way, way too long” for justice to be done in the case, James said. But mainly she focused on her sister, whom she called kind and hardworking.

“She wrote amazing poetry,” James said. “Older people and dogs really seemed to take a liking to her and I think that has to say something about her character.”

As a little girl, Bowdoin had an illness that caused her to miss much of a school year. But James said she worked hard to catch up with help from their schoolteacher mother.

By college, she had blossomed into a bright, outgoing young woman. Bowdoin was multi-lingual, and studied abroad in Mexico and Spain. The…

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 12, 2022 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Sanjay Hurry – Investor Relations

Beth Jantzen – Chief Financial Officer

James Hayward – Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Conference Call Participants

Jonathan Aschoff – ROTH Capital Partners

Jason McCarty – Maxim Group

Jon Salmanson – Cantella

Operator

Good evening, and welcome to Applied DNA Sciences’ Fiscal Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions]. After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions]. Please note, this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Sanjay Hurry, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Sanjay Hurry

Thank you, Ryan. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Applied DNA’s conference call to discuss our second quarter fiscal 2022 financial results. You can access the press release that was issued after market closed today, as well as the accompanying slide presentation accompanying this call on the Investor Relations section of our corporate website.

Speaking on the call today are Dr. James Hayward, our Chairman, President and CEO; and Beth Jantzen, our CFO, Judy Murrah, our COO; and Clay Shorrock, our Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business Development, will also be available to answer questions on the Q&A portion of the call.

Before we begin, please note that some of the information you will hear today during our discussion may consist of forward-looking statements. I refer you to Slide two of the presentation and our Form 10-Q filed a short while ago for important risk factors that could cause the company’s actual performance and…

‘”Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III today announced that Scot Trudeau, the 47-year-old Worcester man indicted recently for a cold case 2010 New Bedford aggravated rape thanks to the DA’s Untested Rape Kit Initiative, was found dangerous by a Superior Court judge and is being held without bail.

A 30-minute long dangerousness hearing was held on Tuesday before Judge Gregory White in Fall River Superior Court. During that hearing Deputy District Attorney William McCauley argued that the defendant should be found dangerous and held in jail pending trial. Today, Judge White agreed, and issued a brief slip opinion stating that the defendant is a danger to the community and should be detained. The defendant is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on June 14.

“I am very pleased with the court’s ruling in this matter. This was an important step in the process of protecting the public and hopefully bringing justice to a victim who went through the trauma of being raped and the indignity of having to then submit to a rape kit procedure only to then learn more than a decade later that her rape kit was never fully tested,” District Attorney Quinn said. “This case demonstrates why my office undertook the painstaking process of first discovering a massive statewide problem, then finding a way to solve it in Bristol County and finally put that plan into action. If this victim’s rape kit had been fully tested, this defendant would have been arrested seven years ago.”

District Attorney Quinn’s Untested Rape Kit Initiative led to the recent indictment of Mr. Trudeau on charges of Aggravated Rape and Assault and Battery connected to the cold case 2010 rape of a woman in New Bedford.

On March 18 2010, a 23-year-old woman was…