The U.S. Attorney’s Office celebrates a comprehensive federal grant funds package awarded to the Puerto Rico Department of Justice, the Puerto Rico Forensic Science Institute, and to Community Response to Gender-Based Violence Stakeholders in excess of $28.8 million. read more

The woman’s body had been dismembered and placed into an orange suitcase and several plastic bags. read more

The Center for Human Identification at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth said it is the first public crime lab in the U.S. to offer forensic genetic genealogy capabilities. read more

Researchers in England used real-world data of fatal opioid overdoses to show that naloxone-delivering drones reach patients in 7 minutes or less in 78% of cases—compared with 14% reached by ambulances in that timeframe. read more

The unidentified man had a tattoo of a red rose with three green leaves on his left forearm and a tattoo of an Indian skull on his right forearm. read more

An expert in forensic pathology testified Monday in the ongoing trial of three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged with the death of Manuel Ellis that Ellis likely would have lived if not for the officers’ actions to restrain him. read more

Students were met with crime scene tape, markers, evidence bags, and inventory sheets. The most conspicuous thing missing from the “crime scene” was the body. read more

For the next 18 months, 60 undergraduate and graduate students will help dig up and catalogue animal remains at the Oakville and Milton Humane Society (OMHS) pet cemetery. read more

Over the past decade, the illicit drug trade primarily developed and used fentanyl analogs. read more

On Tuesday, Perry Lott was exonerated in Ada, Oklahoma, after 35 years of wrongful conviction and 30 years of incarceration for a 1987 rape and burglary. read more