🌱 How Chinatown DNA samples could finally identify a long-mysterious Gilgo Beach victim
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- How Chinatown DNA samples could finally identify a long-mysterious Gilgo Beach victim
Also on today's calendar: 44th Annual Paumanauke Pow Wow.
Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 85 and low of 74 degrees.
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📰 News we're reading
• Long Island DA collects DNA samples in NYC's Chinatown to unwind mystery of unidentified Gilgo Beach victim (nypost.com) — Investigators are renewing efforts to identify an unidentified victim found along Gilgo Beach by collecting voluntary DNA samples from New York City’s Chinatown community. Suffolk County prosecutors hope expanded genealogical data will finally reveal who “Asian Doe” was and clarify any connection to the broader Gilgo Beach murder cases that have long unsettled Long Island’s South Shore communities. 
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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