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Bento is a co-author of a pre-print paper analyzing the recent drive in cases across the country, analyzing a database of 45 states encompassing over 50,000 schools in 3,000 counties.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Working with the FBI, Arlington police had finally solved the crime that summer through genetic genealogy, matching the killer’s DNA to relatives in a public database.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Complicating matters further, when I checked the researchers’ database, it labeled the Blum and Saphier articles “mixed” and only the Spencer one “AI.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The company has since been dissolved, according to the Idaho Secretary of State business database.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Here, ranked by frequency of mention, are the crime-drop explanations cited in articles published from 1991 to 2001 in the ten largest-circulation papers in the LexisNexis database.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt