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The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then themselves, prosecutors...
8.21.2017
10:29am
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A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms) of methamphetamine from Mexico, an unusually large seizure for what is still a novel technique to bring illegal drugs into the United States,...
8.21.2017
10:27am
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The first domestic abuse policing strategy in UK history to be trialed under experimental conditions has found that an inexpensive two-day course in behavior management for first offenders resulted in 35 percent fewer men reoffending against their...
8.21.2017
10:19am
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Police have destroyed DNA samples collected years ago from several black men in a controversial 2004 sweep in Omaha now that a suspect in a series of rapes has been charged.
8.21.2017
10:13am
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Some forensic science—analysis of bite marks, latent fingerprints, firearms identification, burn patterns in arson investigations, footwear patterns and tire treads—was once considered sound, but is now being denounced by some lawyers and scientists who...
8.21.2017
9:28am
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The back-to-back vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort had been planned for a long time by an Islamic terrorist cell—and could have been far deadlier had its base not been destroyed by an apparently accidental explosion this week, Spanish...
8.18.2017
12:22pm
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Researchers Jonathan Lusthaus and Federico Varese, of the Human Cybercriminal Project at the University of Oxford, traveled to Romania in 2014 and 2015 to study the oft-ignored real-world aspect of cybercrime in an area known to be a hub for one specific...
8.18.2017
12:00pm
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Researchers have determined that household cleaner OxiClean has proven scientifically to be effective in cleaning up fentanyl spills. The product contains sodium percarbonate, a chemical which, in previous research, had been shown to oxidize and break...
8.18.2017
11:20am
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After a year of a multi-agency investigation, authorities finally have their man: the “Chameleon” killer was one Terry Peder Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy veteran whose wife left him and took their four children before he went on a historic killing spree across...
8.18.2017
11:08am
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A man in prison for 45 years could be on the cusp of freedom after another man said he had no role in a 1971 murder in Detroit. A judge last week threw out Richard Phillips’ conviction and granted a new trial. Wayne County prosecutors have pledged to...
8.18.2017
9:33am
