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DNA From Dismembered Foot ID's Man Found 3 Years Earlier
October 12, 2022
In April 2019, while conducting a natural death investigation in Mississippi, detectives with the Biloxi Police Department were made aware of a human foot located in a bucket on the property of the recently deceased individual. read more
NIST Draft Review: Bitemark Analysis Not Supported by Sufficient Data
October 12, 2022
The draft review finds that “forensic bitemark analysis lacks a sufficient scientific foundation because the three key premises of the field are not supported by the data. read more
Bodies Exhumed from Mass Grave in Ukraine’s Liberated Lyman
October 12, 2022
Another 22 civilians have been exhumed from individual graves at the burial site, located on the edge of a cemetery in a forested area on the outskirts of Lyman. Further exhumations are planned. read more
Study Shows Increasing Firearm Deaths Among Texas School-age Children
October 12, 2022
Firearm-related deaths in school-age children are dramatically increasing in the United States where homicide rates are about six- to nine-fold higher than those in comparably developed countries. read more
Police Apologize for Use of DNA Phenotyping in 2019 Cold Case
October 10, 2022
Forty-eight hours after release, amid accusations of racism, the image was removed from the media release as well as social media sites, and the officer in charge of the sexual assault section apologized. read more
NYSP, Academic Partnership Empowers Forensic Science Students
October 10, 2022
A new partnership is empowering forensic science students to seek out mentors and learn what a career in forensic science could look like for them. read more
'This is an Active Forensics Lab, Not your Normal Research Lab'
October 10, 2022
Ross runs the North Carolina Human Identification & Forensics Analysis Laboratory, which contracts with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for forensic anthropological casework statewide. read more
Opioid Overdose Detection, Response Startup Gets NIH Grant
October 10, 2022
Rescue Biomedical has received a grant to develop its technology that detects when a person is overdosing on an opioid and delivers naloxone to reverse the action. read more
Calls for Change After Report Says NZ Police Illegally Photograph Children, Adults
October 10, 2022
The New Zealand Police were recently found to have been routinely and illegally photographing young people and adults in public. Many might have expected this to see an end to the practice – but apparently not. read more
With Guidelines, Children’s Eyewitness Testimony Can Be as Accurate As Adults’
October 07, 2022
The reliability of child witnesses is especially important to understand given the large number of children who become involved in the legal system every year. read more
Cold Case Team Uses Genealogy to ID 2004 Rape Suspect
October 07, 2022
Utilizing the Denver Police Crime Laboratory, a direct DNA comparison identified Groshart as the suspect in the March 2004 sexual assault. read more
IGG Gives Name to Woman Killed in 2004, Remains Found in 2008
October 07, 2022
The investigation included reviewing hundreds of missing persons reports, providing the media with photographs of clothing and jewelry found with the remains, as well as a composite drawing of what the victim may have looked like. read more
Study Findings have Animal-assisted Therapy Implications
October 07, 2022
In a new study, researchers have shown that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs leads to increasingly higher levels of activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. read more
Police Training in U.S. is Limited Compared with Other Nations
October 07, 2022
Police in the U.S. deal with more diverse, distressed and aggrieved populations and are involved in more incidents involving firearms, but they average only five months of classroom training—the briefest among 18 countries examined in a Rutgers study. read more
CDC Sees Increase in Fentanyl Analog Use in Overdose Deaths
October 05, 2022
As the overdose epidemic rages on, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released information on the increased detection of para-fluorofentanyl, a schedule I illicit fentanyl analog. read more
State Police Identify Remains as Teen Missing Since 1969
October 05, 2022
The Pennsylvania State Police announced that human remains discovered in Luzerne County nearly 10 years ago have been identified as those of a Wilkes-Barre teenager who went missing four decades earlier. read more
NamUs Selects Othram as a Forensic Genetic Genealogy Partner
October 05, 2022
The partnership will develop and deploy forensic DNA testing tools to help reconnect missing and unidentified persons with their families. read more
Police: California Serial Killer ‘On a Mission’ in Slayings
October 05, 2022
A California serial killer seems to be “on a mission” throughout the fatal shooting of six men and the wounding of one woman dating back to last year. read more
Forensic Art Helps Give Faces to 3 Medieval Ancestors
October 05, 2022
Using a range of archaeological and forensic science techniques, experts are now reconstructing the faces of three people who died 700 years ago. read more
Study: Forensic STRs May Reveal Medical Information
October 03, 2022
In the new study, published last week in PNAS, researchers investigated whether genotypes at the CODIS loci could directly reveal information about the expression levels of neighboring genes. read more