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PHILADELPHIA - Desperate times call for desperate measures.

That, more than anything else, may explain the New York Giants decision to fire offensive coordinator Jason Garrett on a short week that also includes the Thanksgiving holiday.

Former Cleveland Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens, who had been a senior offensive assistant for Giants head coach Joe Judge and Garrett, will take over the play-calling duties for the 3-7 Giants against the surging 5-6 Eagles on Sunday.

I dont think theres ever an ideal time to make a move like this in-season, but, to me, its whenever its necessary to make the move, you go ahead and make it, Judge said on a conference call Wednesday.

Going into the bye week we were coming together as a team in all three phases. There was some progress being made, but ultimately, we need to be more productive as an offense.

Judge, a Philadelphia native, is attempting to build a culture of accountability in North Jersey for an organization that has hit the skids in recent seasons.

Dating back to 2017 the once-revered Giants franchise has been a bottom-feeder with a record of 21-53 that span, including the 3-7 mark this season. Another three losses over the final seven games and New York will record double-digit setbacks for the fifth straight campaign and Judge could be updating his resume after just two seasons at the helm.

I tell the team all the time Im not afraid to make moves whenever necessary to put our team in a position to be successful, said the embattled coach.

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What Judge doesnt want anyone to think is that Garrett was scapegoated in order to remove the target off the head coachs own back.

Lets be clear, someones not taking the fall, Judge said, This isnt a blame game. I made it very clear to our guys. Im in no way concerned or influenced by external criticism or perception.

In Judges mind, its just about getting the Giants out of the 3-7 hole where the final NFC playoffs spots figure to go to teams with either slightly above or slightly below .500.

My job is to make sure I make the best decisions for the team and put everyone in position for success, Judge said.

The second-year head coach even thanked Garrett, the long-time mentor in Dallas, for helping him grow into the big chair in the nations largest media market

I appreciate what Jason did. I have a very good relationship with Jason. Hes been very good to me in terms of being a young head coach and sharing his wisdom and experiences, Judge said. Hes helped me grow a lot. Hes helped this team grow a lot. Phenomenal job building relationships in this building.

For Eagles rookie coach Nick Sirianni the move complicated things a bit from a preparation standpoint.

You have to go back and look at some things that Kitchens did at Cleveland and some of those things like that, he said. Of course, you look for every advantage, every edge, some of the tendency things. You got to go back and look at what they had.

I've said this before in here, it's a different play-caller. There's going to be different looks. There's going to be different things that he does, Coach Garrett didn't do, or vice versa. We just got to be ready for everything.

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Veteran defensive tackle Fletcher Cox explained that the unique circumstances almost have to have the Eagles looking inward.

The biggest thing is making it about us, Cox said on Wednesday. We know that theyre going into a switch, and this is a division game. Basically, it comes down to we kind of know them, they maybe know us from the film theyre watching, but the biggest thing is making it about us, making sure whatever [defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon] calls everybody is doing their job and holding them accountable.

Will they have some wrinkles? Im sure they will, but the biggest thing for us is executing our game plan like weve been doing.

-John McMullen contributes Eagles coverage for SI.com's EagleMaven and is the NFL Insider for JAKIB Media. You can listen to John, alongside legendary sports-talk host Jody McDonald every morning from 8-10 on Birds 365, streaming live on both PhillyVoice.com and YouTube. John is also the host of his own show "Extending the Play" on AM1490 in South Jersey. You can reach him at jmcmullen44@gmail.com or on Twitter @JFMcMullen

Ed Kracz is the publisher of SI.coms Eagle Maven and co-host of the Eagles Unfiltered Podcast. Check out the latest Eagles news at http://www.SI.com/NFL/Eagles or http://www.eaglemaven.com and please follow him on Twitter: @kracze.

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Rather than focus in on the Ultra Boost most current, adidas now utilizes the full range of versions. Here, the 5.0 makes a return, kicking off the month of December in a color palette not too unlike an alternate Spider-Man costume.

Both black and blue threads are used in the Primeknit, the former effectively serving as the base. The cool tones, then, set in atop the toe, tongue, and side, highlighting the 5.0s unique hybrid weave pattern. Via the cage, counter, BOOST, and the like the aforementioned neutral makes a full appearance, at points a backdrop to the red-hued stripes and branding.

Enjoy a close-up look at the colorway below and expect to see them on adidas.com by December 1st.

In other news, the Cool Grey 11s are making their debut that month as well.

Where to Buy

Make sure to follow @kicksfinder for live tweets during the release date.

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The adidas Ultra Boost 5.0 DNA Kicks Off December In Black, Blue, And Red - Sneaker News

A man is expected to be charged after police used DNA to make a breakthrough in the investigation of a series of rapes committed in Sydney more than 15 years ago.

Strike Force McCoy was established in March 2004 to investigate 13 separate sexual assaults between August 2003 and November 2004 across Sydney's inner west.

The incidents were linked by location and modus operandi, with four linked by a common DNA profile located at the crime scenes.

Despite exhaustive investigations at the time, including help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the exploration of more than 3000 people of interest, no one was charged over the attacks.

In February last year, detectives from the State Crime Command's Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad started reinvestigating the case.

Earlier this year, experts from NSW Health Pathology's Forensic and Analytical Science Service advised they had established a familial DNA link in the case.

Further inquiries were conducted with help from the Forensic Evidence and Technical Services Command's DNA Management Unit, which identified a DNA match.

Detectives arrested a 51-year-old man at Panania, in Sydney's south at dawn on Monday.

He has been taken to Bankstown Police Station, where he is expected to be charged with multiple offences.

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Former Speaker Francis ole Kaparo. [File]

Former National Assembly Speaker Francis ole Kaparo has accused his wife of attempting to disinherit him by demanding DNA tests on their four children.

Kaparo is embroiled in a bitter divorce with Mary Mpereina, his wife of 40 years. Mary's case seeking divorce revolves around claims of adultery, having accused Kaparo of cohabiting with another woman in Kiambu.

In his response to Mary's application for the paternity tests, Kaparo says: "None of the children is a minor. They are all grown-ups and responsible for themselves and cannot be forced to take a DNA test that does not seek to achieve anything in their best interest."

The children the couple is referring to are Benard Kaparo who was aged 37 years old at the time the petition was filed in 2013, Stella Kaparo (35), Saidima Kaparo (32) and Susan Kaparo (30).

He further says the paternity test as demanded by his estranged wife is likely to cause undue discord in the family.

"The truth of the allegations by the petitioner can be ascertained without the use of a DNA test which is likely to result in unintended consequences in the family," Kaparo stated in a sworn affidavit.

He claimed his estranged wife, who is a former teacher and businesswoman, is more interested in the matrimonial property than the divorce.

"The petitioner seems to be more concerned about succession than the children who she wants to drag into the matrimonial dispute," Kaparo responds.

He said attempts by family members to resolve the disputes since 1984 have been in vain.The case has been before former Kiambu Chief Magistrate Patricia Gichohi.

In her plaint, Mary cited desertion, cruelty, and adultery as grounds for divorce, saying that"I have been severely affected by the respondent's inhumane treatment, dishonesty, immoral character and eventual desertion of the matrimonial home."

She said she tried to save their marriage until Kaparo recently moved out of the house.Mary told Kiambu Chief Magistrate Emily Ominde that one of the reasons she moved to court was to protect her rights to the vast matrimonial property they jointly acquired.

"I have never consented to the respondent marrying another woman, and would never agree to share a husband," she said, adding that their problems started in 2017.

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St. Louis Medical Examiner's Office has an unprecedented amount of unidentified remains waiting to be reunited with families

ST. LOUIS Joseph Parkers family wondered for four years where the father of five had gone.

Several of his eight siblings described him as always ready to help them if they needed it, especially when his brothers needed an extra hand for their demolition company.

They said he had a golden voice, and loved to record R&B songs with his cousins. They said they tried to be there for him, too, as he struggled with addiction.

He didnt have a place of his own, and stayed mostly with his mother or his aunt, sometimes squatting in vacant buildings.

Occasionally, a week might pass before a member of his family would hear from himbut the spring of 2017 was different, said his sister, Lashawn Jones.

Joseph never just disappeared, she said. He always needed us for whatever it was. For him to go missing for weeks or months, we were like, OK, something is not right.

Thats why in April of 2017, after two months went by with no word from Joseph, his family filed a missing persons report and formed a search party to look for him in vacant buildings around the St. Louis Place neighborhood where his mother lived.

We searched every building but that one, his brother Don Parker recalled, standing outside an abandoned light bulb factory near 18th and Madison streets.

Inside that building, a man found human remains in 2019.

Now, two years after that, the St. Louis Medical Examiners Office has identified the remains as the body of Joseph Parker and reunited him with his family.

Its an outcome the Parker family fearedbut one that has given them the answers they needed to move forward.

And its an outcome the St. Louis Medical Examiners Office is still hoping to bring to seven more unidentified soulsthe highest number of unidentified remains the staff there can ever recall having at one time, according to Tara Rick, director of operations for the morgue.

We like to hope that everyone has someone and we just have to find them, she said. This case, in particular, was one that was close to us that never left our mind.

Rick credits the success in the Parker case to his familys own actions, technology and dogged determination by the citys forensic staff.

A missing persons report

Joseph Parkers mother was too distraught to do an interview with 5 On Your Side, so her sister, Gloria Baker, spoke for her.

To Baker, Joseph Parker was Pee Wee.

When he was born, he was so little that my mom made his bed out of a dresser drawer and so I said, This is my Pee-Wee, Baker recalled. So thatd been his name from 1980 all the way until the end.

To his brother, Don Parker, he was Joey Joe.

I called him and I said, Hey Joey Joe, I got some work for you, and he said, All right, come pick me up Don Don, Don Parker said. So I picked him up and we did the job and he got paid, of course, and I dropped him off.

That was the last time I saw him. Then, March of 2017 went by. So did April.

Joseph Parkers mother reported her son missing at the St. Louis Police Department. Along with the report, she gave the police a sample of her DNA.

From there, police sent her sample to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. There, DNA profiles from relatives of people declared missing are entered into a database to be checked should a sample of a missing relatives DNA be recovered and analyzed.

Filing that report and submitting a DNA sample is the single most important step any family concerned about a missing loved one can take, Rick said.

They may give certain identifiers like a clothing description, a physical description, but very rarely is it information that we need, like DNA, dental records or radiological records that would show if you had broken bones, fractures or treatment records at local facilities that could be used for comparison, Rick said.

In addition to filing the report, the Parker family formed search parties.

We went in buildings, vacant buildings and they were lifting up things and yelling out, Hey, Joseph, you in there? or Joseph, somebody, anybody,'" his sister, Lashawn Jones said. "Of course, we've seen a lot of things we probably shouldn't see and we didn't want to see, but we did have search parties for him and we put in a lot of footwork and we walked to these places.

As the months turned into years, the family feared the worst especially his mother, according to her sister.

I watched my sister go through day by day, week by week of not knowing where her child is, where he was at, Baker said. And it was just really rough.

We kept the faith, but it was still a struggle because we didn't know where he was and what happened, and we didn't have that closure.

Body found

Just before 2 p.m. on August 18, 2019, a homeless man walked into the Central Patrol station and asked to speak to a supervisor.

A police sergeant greeted him, and the man told the sergeant he had been living in a vacant factory for several months, primarily on the first floor of the three-story building in the 1800 block of 19th Street.

The man told police he accidentally stepped on a piece of plywood that covered a hole in the floor of the first floor and fell to his knees. The plywood started to give way and he fell to his hands and knees. He looked through a small uncovered section and saw a human body floating in water below.

The man told police he was wearing a headlamp at the time, and that was the only reason he was able to see the body.

He told police he didnt know what to do, so he stayed with a friend for a few days, who told him to notify the police.

The hole in the floor was a cisternusually built to catch and store stormwater. It measured about 29 inches around, and was 20 feet deep with about 10 feet of water in it when police discovered the body, according to the police report.

The man told police he didnt hear or see anything during the time he was living in the warehouse that would have made him think someone could be in the cistern, and he didnt recognize the clothing on the body.

He told police he believed the hole had been covered the entire time he lived there.

When police arrived, they got into the vacant structure through an insecure doorway along the north wall. Broken light bulbs and intact light bulbs littered the floor along with old machinery and other debris, according to the police report.

The first floor was primarily open space with support beams. A piece of plywood almost completely covered the opening to the cistern, according to the report.

The body was clad in a pair of black pants, white tennis shoes, and a black Dickies button-down shirt, according to the report.

The Medical Examiners Office did not find any evidence of a shooting or any other type of trauma to the body. Decomposition was advanced.

Fingerprintsthe first step in getting a person identifiedwere not an option.

An anthropological exam concluded the victim was likely a white man between the ages of 34 and 48 years old and between 5-feet-6-inches and 6-feet-3-inches tall.

At the time, none of the missing persons reports matched that description.

In the months that followed, two different mothers called the morgue with descriptions of their missing sons. Both sent dental records for comparison. Both came back negative.

DNA match

The case went cold until October, about two years after Rick first sent samples of the remains to the University of North Texas for analysis.

This year, analysts developed a DNA profile from the remains and ran it in the database of family members who submitted samples for comparison.

The profile from the remains hit on Joseph Parkers mother.

From there, Rick looked up Joseph Parkers missing persons report, and ultimately made the match. DNA was the key, she said.

I don't feel that we would have had this type of resolution, even though it took a long time, without the family providing those samples, Rick said. It was very emotional.

I know that this family had waited a long time for some answers.

Don Parker told himself he was not going to cry during an interview with 5 On Your Side about his brothers case. But talking about how grateful he is to have an answer, and yet, how it also dashed the hope he had about his brothers whereabouts gets to him.

I was thinking he was probably out of town somewhere, Don Parker said.

His sister echoed his heartbreak.

Just to have the hope for the four and a half years, I mean, we were really holding on, Jones said.

Theyre not sure whether to believe their brother died after accidentally falling into the cistern inside the dark abandoned structure, or whether foul play was involved.

His cause and manner of death are undetermined due to decomposition. The Parker family members now have the most important answer.

Now we know, Don Parker said. We can stop searching and we can stop thinking. We know they found him, and he can rest peacefully now.

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