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Maryland, Montana Become First States to Restrict Genetic Genealogy Searches
Maryland and Montana have become the first U.S. states to pass laws that make it tougher for law enforcement to access and search consumer DNA databases for forensic genetic genealogy, or investigative genetic genealogy, purposes. read more
University's Law Center has New Home for Forensic, Courtroom Training
The Children’s Law Center finally has a permanent home, complete with mock courtroom and crime-scene apartment for forensic training purposes. read more
Connecticut to Use COVID-19 Money for Crime Prevention, Rapid DNA, Ballistics
The money from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act will be used to help pay for community outreach programs, regional law enforcement task forces and specialized police positions and fund real-time access to data from rapid-DNA and ballistics testing. read more
Forensic Economist: $2.5B to Abate Opioid Crisis in West Virginia Community
A 15-year plan to abate the opioid crisis in a West Virginia community will cost local officials $2.5 billion, a forensic economist has testified. read more
Verogen, QIAGEN Partner on New NGS Human ID Workflow
QIAGEN and Verogen Inc. have announced a partnership to provide laboratories with superior tools and comprehensive support for implementing next-generation sequencing (NGS) human identification workflows. read more
Bullet Found in Remains of Possible Tulsa Race Massacre Victim
The remains of a Black male with a bullet lodged in his left shoulder have been recovered by the team searching for, excavating and analyzing skeletal remains found in a mass grave of possible Tulsa Race Massacre victims. read more
International Collab IDs Man Found Near Canadian Lake in 2016
Initially, aerial, water, and ground searches were conducted to try and locate any sort of additional information regarding the man’s identity, yet these efforts were unsuccessful. read more
DNA Samples Collected From Family Members to Aid Condo Collapse ID Efforts
Rescuers swept the mound with dogs trained to sniff out humans and used a microwave radar device developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the Department of Homeland Security that “sees” through up to 8 inches of concrete. read more
University of Arkansas Awarded Grant to Study State’s Prison Culture and Climate
The Arkansas Department of Corrections has awarded the University of Arkansas at Little Rock a multi-year contract of more than $453,000 to study and assess prison culture and climate in Arkansas. read more
DNA Matters: How Complex DNA Evidence Exonerates the Innocent
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Traditional methods of DNA interpretation are limited, and do not use all the data. Imagine a medical world without doctors, where technicians take superb X-ray images, but there are no radiologists to read them. read more
Professor Develops New Computer Program Interview Tool
The Forensic Interview Trace (FIT) is a secure computer program designed to record the structure, content and characteristics of a forensic interview, involving victims, witnesses, suspects and persons of interest. read more
Rutgers-Camden Spearheads Launch of New Jersey Innocence Project
New Jersey residents who have been wrongly convicted of crimes and seek exoneration have a new resource: the New Jersey Innocence Project, based at Rutgers University-Camden, which focuses the expertise of Rutgers faculty in law, forensic science, criminal justice, and social work. read more
3,000-Year-Old Remains Show Oldest Known Shark Attack
Using a combination of archaeological science and forensic techniques, an international research team has carefully recreated what happened. read more
Man Exonerated in 1994 Murder, Gunned Down Outside Chicago
One of four men convicted and later cleared of the 1994 rape and murder of a Chicago woman has been shot to death, the Cook County medical examiner’s office revealed Wednesday. read more
The Role of Automatic Speaker Recognition in the Investigative Process
These systems are trained to extract the unique properties of a person’s voice automatically from an audio recording and return a statistical probability that the speaker’s voice is the same as the voice extracted from a different audio recording. read more