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New DNA technology has cracked yet another cold case surrounding a man’s dismembered body parts being found inside two suitcases in Ohio nearly three decades ago, police said.

Larry Drotleff, 81, of Euclid, confessed to the 27-year-old dismemberment of his father, Lawrence A. Drotleff, who would have been 93 at the time his remains were found, Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell said in a news release. 

The case began in February 1998, when authorities received a complaint regarding a suitcase found by a group of children on Winkler Hill Road in Dover Township containing unidentified male body parts – including a pelvis and part of one leg.

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One week later, a second suitcase containing a torso was found along Boltz Orchard Road in Jefferson Township, authorities said.

Despite the recovery of a body, authorities were unable to determine the identity of the victim or a potential suspect. 

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“While DNA was collected from the remains in both suitcases, neither fingerprints from the suitcases themselves nor the DNA from the body parts ever led to the identification of the remains or a suspect,” Campbell said. “All leads were run out and leads that did come in over the years were investigated with no progress on identifying the victim or a suspect.”

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The case ultimately ran cold until investigators decided to take another look in February 2023, with DNA testing pointing to Larry Drotleff as a family member of the deceased, Lawrence A. Drotleff, police said.

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Authorities then learned Larry Drotleff had previously been caught collecting retirement and social security funds from his father, according to police. When questioned by social security investigators at the time of the alleged thefts, Larry Drotleff offered the explanation that his father had moved away.

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In January 2024, Larry Drotleff told investigators he was living with his father when he came home from work and found him deceased, according to authorities. He cooperated with the investigation by providing his own DNA for investigators to confirm his father’s identity. 

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“Larry indicated that he then cut up his father’s body with a manual hand saw and disposed of some body parts in the suitcases and others by just putting them in bags in a dumpster near his workplace,” Campbell said.

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Although the statute of limitations has passed on abuse of a corpse charges, Larry Drotleff is facing two federal counts of stealing his father’s Social Security and pension funding, totalling over $250,000.  

“While the case did not prove to be a murder, it should be noted that the inhumane treatment of the Corpse was conduct so inexcusable that this case remained a priority for the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office,” Campbell said. “It remains difficult to comprehend that the greed of theft could cause someone to treat their father’s body in this manner.”

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A California vineyard owner has died after being crushed by elephants while on a hunting expedition in Africa.

Ernie Dosio, 75, was hunting yellow-backed duikers in Gabon when the deadly April 17 incident occurred.

Dosio, who kept an extensive collection of animal heads in his home, was trampled to death when he and his guide stumbled into five female elephants with a calf in the Lope-Okanda rainforest, the Daily Mail reported.

Collect Africa, the Nigerian-based safari operator, confirmed Dosio’s death to the publication. The California-Hawaii Elks Association also confirmed Dosio’s death on Facebook.

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“It is with a most heavy heart and sadness that I am reporting the passing of Ernie Dosio earlier this week,” Tommy Whitman, secretary of Lodi Lodge 1900 and Central District Scouting chairman, wrote in a statement. “May all of our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and loved ones. He will be sorely missed.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the U.S. Embassy in Gabon and the safari company.

An unnamed hunter in Cape Town who knew Dosio told the news outlet that Dosio had been “hunting since he could hold a rifle and had many trophies from Africa and the U.S.”

“Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all of Ernie’s hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation culls to manage animal numbers,” he said. “Ernie had booked a hunt for dwarf forest buffalo and duikers — in particular, the yellow-backed duiker — and, under strict licensing laws, he could not take along his own guns.”

The hunting company would supply a shotgun and cartridges for the duiker hunt, he said.

The hunter added he believes Dosio and his guide surprised the elephants, who attacked because they felt threatened.

“I would rather not go into detail, but it is safe to assume it would have been quick,” he said. “Ernie was a very well-known and popular hunter in the U.S. and in Africa, and a very keen conservationist; he did a hell of a lot of charity work and was a really good guy. What happened has been deeply felt by many on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Dosio’s body is being repatriated to America with assistance from the U.S. Embassy.

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Dosio owned Pacific AgriLands Inc., a Modesto, California, vineyard land management company with its own 12,000-acre vineyard, according to Lodi News.

Central Africa is home to roughly endangered 95,000 forest elephants, with the largest numbers being found in Gabon, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

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A grand jury indicted three alleged Antifa-linked protesters accused of throwing firebombs at the general contractor of an Atlanta police training center, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced in a news conference Friday.

The grand jury on Thursday charged Katie Marie Kloth, 39, Tyler John Norman, 42, and Hannah Margaret Kass, 33, with two counts of criminal property damage and a third count of arson for their alleged assault on the Marietta offices of Brasfield and Gorrie, a contractor working on the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which has been met with protests over its construction by a group called the “Defend the Atlanta Forest,” and referred to by detractors as “cop city.”

On May 12, 2022, the trio allegedly caused hundreds of dollars of damage to Brasfield and Gorrie’s office, both with fire and other means, according to the grand jury indictment obtained exclusively by Fox News.

The defendants allegedly caused damage “by striking and spray painting fencing, windows, and walls by striking them with hands, feet, and thrown objects and painting them with use of spray paint,” according to the indictment.

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While the three allegedly enacted their assault on the office building, Brasfield and Gorrie employees were still inside, Carr said.

Their attacks included the use of explosive devices and fireworks, officials said.

The three are alleged to have traveled from out of the state to participate in the attack, Carr said.

The trio are among 61 defendants previously charged with domestic terrorism and racketeering. All 61, including Kloth, Norman and Kass, are members of “Defend the Atlanta Forest,” a group which Carr referred to as an “anarchist, anti-police, and anti-business extremist organization.”

He also alleged that they were connected to Antifa, a loosely-connected anarchist group which President Donald Trump labeled a domestic terrorist organization in 2025.

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“When it comes to fighting Antifa and keeping people safe, we won’t back down,” Carr said. “This isn’t Portland or Seattle. If you come to our state and engage in violence, threaten private businesses and damage property, you will be identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” 

In December 2025, a Fulton County judge dismissed the racketeering charges on many of the 61 defendants, a decision Carr said he strongly disagreed with. He also indicated he would continue to pursue other charges to the remaining defendants.

“This is ongoing, it has continued. We are running a parallel track between the appeal that we have regarding the Fulton County case and we will continue to prosecute this case,” Carr said.

“We won’t rest until the agents of violence and chaos concerning the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center are punished,” he added.

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The training center has been the target of protests since the 2021 announcement that the multi-million dollar facility would be built. Protesters moved into surrounding forests and began living in tents near the facility.

In January 2023, Georgia State Patrol Trooper Jerry Parish was shot while clearing the forest of campers. The incident resulted in the shooting death of one of the protesters, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán.

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Despite the opposition, the training center opened in April 2025.

Fox News Digital contacted “Defend the Atlanta Forest,” but did not immediately receive a response.

When contacted for comment a representative for Brasfield and Gorrie directed Fox News Digital’s queries to the Georgia Attorney General’s office.

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A chapter of a far-left organization at the University of California, Berkeley’s law school capped off a “Palestinian Political Prisoners Day” earlier this week with a message from a failed suicide car bomber who was jailed in Israel for eight years.

UC Berkeley Law Students for Justice Palestine shared a video on its Instagram account from convicted attempted car bomber Israa Jaabis, who thanked her western counterparts for supporting her cause.

“Firstly, I would like to thank [the students] for their attentiveness, for listening with their hearts,” Jaabis said, according to English translated subtitles attached to the video. “For many reasons, even their attendance is enough to make us feel — as liberated Palestinian prisoners — that there is someone who cares about us.”

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Jaabis was jailed in Israel from 2015 to 2023 after attempting to set off a car bomb during a traffic stop. The incident occurred near an area where Israeli soldiers would often gather and attempt to hitchhike. Both Jaabis and the Israeli officer, Moshe Chen, were severely burned during the terror attack.

While in prison, Jaabis made headlines for demanding cosmetic surgery on her badly scarred face. She was released in November 2023 in a prisoner exchange as the Israeli government attempted to free hostages taken by Hamas militants in the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack.

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“There are those who are in solidarity with us, those who support us and do not abandon us,” Jaabis said in the video. “Your attendance — in particular as law students — makes us hopeful that there remains some humanity, that there is someone to support us in the future, delivering our message to the international community and amplifying our call to liberate Palestinian prisoners, as well as to liberate societies from servitude and from bigotry which produces populations complicit in perpetrating inhumane laws.”

Critics on X blasted both the event organizers and UC Berkeley itself.

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“Berkeley being a leftist cesspool is not something that should surprise you,” said one X user.

“Muslims must be laughing at the insane stupidity of the ‘enlightened’ useful idiots here in the West,” said another.

“This stuff keeps me up at night. I don’t understand how the world just rewrites morality to fit it’s political agenda,” said another.

A spokesperson for UC Berkeley Law said the school’s hands were tied.

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“As a public university, UC Berkeley has a non-discretionary obligation to abide by and support the First Amendment in a completely content neutral manner,” Alex Shapiro, assistant dean of communications, said. “We do not have the legal ability to sanction or censor Constitutionally protected expression.”

“However, as UC Berkeley has repeatedly informed the student body, if any campus community member feels threatened, they are encouraged to contact the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination. OPHD provides support to those harmed, investigates all allegations, and the campus takes appropriate steps following any findings.”

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Ohio officials say a semitruck driver charged in a fiery interstate crash that killed a young family of three fraudulently obtained an Ohio driver’s license, a commercial driver’s license and later U.S. citizenship under an alternate identity.

The driver, Modou F. Ngom, 50, was arrested after authorities said he caused the April 11 chain-reaction crash on Interstate 71 northbound near U.S. 36, where a semitrailer slammed into slowed traffic in a construction zone and ignited a deadly fire.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the crash killed a 37-year-old man, a 36-year-old woman and a 1-year-old child from Ashley, Ohio, who were riding in a Chevrolet Silverado. Three others suffered serious injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

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In a statement, Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson confirmed to Fox News that investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Ohio State Highway Patrol uncovered conflicting identity information in state and federal records after Ngom’s arrest.

Ngom, he said, entered the United States in the 1990s and used multiple names and dates of birth to obtain state and federal identification documents.

Wilson alleged that Ngom fraudulently obtained a new Ohio driver’s license and later a commercial driver’s license in 2007 under an alternate identity, and was later naturalized as a U.S. citizen under that same identity before changing his name back to Modou Ngom in 2015.

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Wilson said he directed state investigators to turn the information over to Homeland Security Investigations Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further investigation. He said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio and the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office were also notified.

Fox News Digital reached out to ICE.

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The crash itself unfolded in chaos, according to a 911 call and dispatch records obtained by Fox News.

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“People are stuck in the car,” one caller told dispatchers as flames spread.

Another voice on the call said, “They’re definitely dead. The fire is, like, huge,” while callers reported that multiple vehicles and the semi were burning.

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“A lot of people are out of their vehicles and stopped in the middle of the highway,” another female caller is heard telling the dispatcher. “Like, it’s pretty bad.“

The Columbus Dispatch identified the victims as Luke and Lynnea Soposki and their baby Logan. Lynnea was a veterinarian and Luke was a analytical chemist.

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“Dr. Soposki was an extraordinary veterinarian, a compassionate caregiver, and a deeply valued member of our team,” the Muirfield Animal Hospital said. “She brought kindness, dedication, and a genuine love for her patients and their families into every interaction.”

Ngom was jailed after the crash on vehicular homicide charges, according to police. He was indicted by a Delaware County grand jury on the seven felony charges April 16.