The nation’s top public health agency softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. read more

A research team examining 82 mass murders that occurred at least partially in academic settings throughout the world found that most mass murderers and mass shooters did not have severe psychiatric illnesses. read more

The Supreme Court of Ohio has vacated the conviction of a man linked by investigative genetic genealogy to the kidnapping, rape and attempted murder of a woman in 1993, finding the statute of limitations to charge him with attempted aggravated murder ran out 20 years before his indictment. read more

The AFP will have access to specialized forensic DNA testing, not currently available in Australia, to identify human remains and develop new leads for unsolved crimes, by partnering with a world-leading forensic genomics laboratory. read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the launch of a new online portal to allow survivors of sexual assault to track the status of their sexual assault evidence kits and the hiring of the state’s first-ever sexual assault evidence outreach coordinator, Dr. Sarai Crain. read more

Nothing was found to be able to identify the remains or to assist in determining how or why the person had died or how they ended up in the farmer’s field. read more

The coffins, then the remains, will be examined to see if they match reports from 1921 that the victims were males buried in plain caskets. read more

If any kids dressed as vampires come to your door tonight requesting candy, they probably won’t look like the 19th century “vampire” in this reconstruction. read more

The Charleston County Coroner’s Office will work to improve inter-county opioid investigation protocols, faster uploading of data to national stakeholder databases, and more accurate reginal opioid death statistics which will be provided to local, state, and federal agencies that analyze opioid-related mortality rates. read more

In October 2021, Kalamazoo SAKI received approval from the MSP Forensics Lab to resubmit the victim’s SAK for further testing. read more