While it currently takes the office 8 months to more than a year to identify a decedent via DNA, the new system will produce DNA identification results in under two hours.
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Authorities say they have solved the 50-year-old killing of an Iowa teen but not before the suspect died of old age.
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One of France’s biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked – and the decades-long hunt for a suspect in multiple rapes and killings during the 1980s and 1990s led to a former police officer.
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A Florida man exonerated of a 1983 rape and murder after serving 37 years in prison is suing over his wrongful conviction in which a disproven bite mark was crucial evidence.
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New research could help forensic teams in their work to estimate the age of the remains of children discovered during archaeological work or in criminal investigative cases.
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In April 1981, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found off I-80 near Route 30 in New Lenox, Illinois.
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All four men were convicted of Crawford’s murder in 2008, even though no physical evidence connected any of them to the crime and Dement’s “confessions” did not comport with the facts of the crime scene.
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Police searched the area and put up roadblocks at the time but the teens’ killer wasn’t found. Fingerprints and latent DNA samples from the crime scene were collected, but there were no matches at the time.
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All conventional identification approaches including Short Tandem Repeat (STR) DNA testing at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) were unsuccessful in producing leads to the man’s identity.
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At ISHI 32, Elena Zavala presented the results of her recent study comparing three common forensic extraction methods to one of the most widely used ancient DNA extraction methods.
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