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	Erika Lyn Smith BellaOnline's Missing and Exploited Children Editor

Age-Progression and Missing Children
A Forensic artist uses simple tools when working to create age-enhanced photographs of missing or abducted children. These tools include but are not limited to paper, pencils, a computer, imagination, and knowledge, and photographs. Family photos are helpful in age-progression photographs.

Criminal Analysis
Criminal profiling of violent criminals is a technique that FBI agent John Douglas pioneered. Today, the FBI does not use the term profiling, replacing it with the term criminal analysis. Learn how criminal analysis helps find abducted children.

Criminal Analysis of Violent Crimes
The objective of a criminal analysis, learn who the criminal is and how he (or she) works. By determining certain facts about the subject, law enforcement can eliminate suspects that may not fit the profile. How does it work?

DNA Identifies Jennifer Schuett's Rapist
The objective of finding and using DNA profiling is to positively place a suspect at the scene of a crime. So how exactly does DNA work? Read my article to see how DNA is changing lives.

DNA and CODIS Solve Decade Old Crime
The prosecuting attorney’s office talked to the survivors, letting them know the man who assaulted them, has through the miracle of DNA been identified. The women could finally place a name and face to the monster that had struck silently in the night almost a decade ago, Charles Joseph Steffani. Update: Charles Joseph Steffani died in prison in 2008.

DNA Confirms Remains of Samuel & Lindsey Porter
Brother and sister, Samuel and Lindsey Porter, missing since June 6, 2004 when abducted by their father, Daniel Porter. The children, identified through DNA, are now home with the mother, Tina Porter who never stopped looking for them in the three years they were missing. Here is their story.