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Man Sentenced for 1980s Rapes after Genealogy, DNA from Utility Bill Ties Him to Crimes
April 06, 2022
A man linked to a series of sexual assaults in central Indiana more than 30 years ago by his DNA on an envelope for a utility bill payment was sentenced last week to 650 years in prison.
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States Look for Solutions as Fentanyl Deaths Keep Rising
April 04, 2022
In statehouses across the country, lawmakers have been considering and adopting laws on two fronts: reducing the risk to users and increasing the penalties for dealing fentanyl or mixing it with other drugs.
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Investigators have ID'ed 120 of 132 Plane Crash Victims Through DNA
March 28, 2022
Authorities said that forensic and criminal investigation experts had confirmed the identities of 114 passengers and six crew members.
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'Advancement in Forensic Technology' Solves Murder Once Featured on America's Most Wanted
March 28, 2022
A 61-year-old woman was arrested in Oklahoma in the 1993 killing of a Northern California shop owner who was shot during a “robbery gone wrong."
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State Forensics Lab Planned for Southeast Alabama
March 21, 2022
The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences plans to open a new state laboratory in southeast Alabama that will conduct testing to help combat opioids and other drugs in the region.
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Prosecutors Seek DNA Testing for Case Made Famous by 'Serial' Podcast
March 11, 2022
The two sides agreed the Baltimore City Police Lab should retest certain items collected as evidence in the 1999 killing of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee using DNA technology that was not available for Syed’s trials.
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A Look Inside the 1st Official ‘Safe Injection Sites’ in U.S.
March 11, 2022
Equipped and staffed to reverse overdoses, New York City’s new, privately run “overdose prevention centers” are a bold and contested response to a storm tide of opioid overdose deaths nationwide.
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DNA Links Slain Illinois Man to 1982 Killing in Iowa
March 07, 2022
Investigators in Iowa used genealogical data to link the 1982 fatal stabbing of a woman to an Illinois trucker who was found shot to death in a shallow grave months later.
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New Mexico Bill Allows Testing to Prevent Fentanyl Deaths
March 02, 2022
New Mexico is allowing broad access to test strips that can detect the presence of the potent opiate fentanyl and potentially help avoid deadly overdoses, under legislation signed Monday.
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Mexico’s Efforts Paltry in Face of Nearly 100,000 Missing
February 28, 2022
How many disappeared in this cartel “extermination site” on the outskirts of Nuevo Laredo, miles from the U.S. border? After six months of work, forensic technicians still don’t dare offer an estimate.
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Kaepernick, Ex-football Star, Launching Initiative for Secondary Autopsies
February 25, 2022
Colin Kaepernick is launching an initiative through his Know Your Rights Camp that will offer free, secondary autopsies to family members of anyone whose death is “police-related.”
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20-Year-Old Genealogy Expert Helps Solve 1964 Rape, Murder of 9-Year-Old Girl
February 14, 2022
DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago.
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CDC Proposes Softer Guidance on Opioid Prescriptions
February 14, 2022
The nation’s top public health agency proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.
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Bipartisan Report Says Opioid Fight Needs New Strategy
February 09, 2022
With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits after the COVID-19 pandemic finally recedes, a shift that public health experts expect in the months ahead.
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Argentina Reels as Opioid-laced Batch of Cocaine Kills at Least 23
February 07, 2022
A batch of cocaine that has killed at least 23 people in Argentina appears to have been laced with a synthetic opioid, and police are scrambling to get as much of it off the streets as they can.
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Maryland ME Seeks Help With Autopsy Backlog Amid Shortage of Forensic Pathologists
February 07, 2022
As of Friday, 217 bodies were awaiting examinations by the state’s forensic pathologists, but Weedn said that number could surpass 300 in less than two weeks.
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Georgia Sheriff Offers Own Reward Money in Case of Teen Found Dead inside Gym Mat
February 04, 2022
A Georgia sheriff who last year reopened an investigation into the 2013 death of a teenager found inside a rolled-up gym mat at school has offered a $500,000 reward of his own money after the parents of the teen continue to state that he was murdered.
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Native American Tribes Reach $590 M Opioid Settlement
February 04, 2022
Native American tribes have reached settlements over the toll of opioids totaling $590 million with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and the country’s three largest drug distribution companies.
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Doctors in Nevada Execution Plan Want Names Secret
February 02, 2022
Prison officials want to use a never-before-tried combination of three or four drugs to execute Zane Michael Floyd by lethal injection.
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Kansas City, Kansas, Police Start Cold Case Unit
January 31, 2022
The Kansas City, Kansas, police department is opening a new unit to review cold cases.
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