Six months. 181 days. 28 mass killings. 140 victims. One country. This year’s unrelenting bloodshed across the U.S. has led to the grimmest of milestones: The deadliest six months of mass killings recorded since at least 2006. read more

A suspect has been taken into custody on New York’s Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders. read more

Using a deep learning computer model and a dataset containing millions of dashboard camera images from New York City rideshare drivers, Cornell Tech researchers were able to see which neighborhoods had the highest numbers of New York Police Department marked vehicles. read more

In a new study, forensic researchers determined a person’s biological sex can be confirmed by their hand odor with extreme accuracy. read more

Once on scene, detectives confirmed the skull to be human and found that it had been washed up during recent flooding. There were few leads to work from and the remains could not be identified. read more

Goethe University Frankfurt has entered into a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Mexico to assist the Mexican government in identifying the country’s more than 110,000 officially disappeared. read more

During the course of their investigation, law enforcement officials were able to determine that the girl’s remains were left in the area only a few days prior to their discovery. read more

China insisted it is up to the U.S. to “create necessary conditions” for anti-drugs cooperation, following complaints from Washington that Beijing has ignored its calls for a crackdown on precursor chemicals for the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl. read more

The study found that police drug seizures were associated with increases in fatal overdose in the surrounding geographic area in the three weeks following enforcement. read more

After 22 years, an unidentified homicide victim found in McLean, Texas has now been identified as Brenda Sue Guessler. read more