A New Jersey lawyer recently charged with sexually assaulting four women in Boston 15 years ago — attacks he was linked to by DNA he left on a drinking glass — has been indicted on suspicion of five additional attacks during the same time period.
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New York City’s DNA Gun Crimes Unit is now the fastest big city lab for testing and analyzing gun crimes evidence.
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While numerous exhibits were tested forensically over the years, a confirmed match to a suspect could not be made. Last year, the RCMP forensic laboratory re-examined the exhibits and a male DNA profile was generated.
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Human remains found near Granger, Wyoming in 1982 have been identified as belonging to a man who disappeared in 1981 while traveling back to his home in Missouri after visiting family in California.
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NDIS approval provides access to federal government funding for accredited public crime laboratories in the U.S. to implement next-generation sequencing (NGS) for routine casework.
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Although touch DNA can be essential for forensic casework, it also comes with its share of issues.
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This work has conclusively linked both homicides to the same offender.
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As many as eight young workers were confirmed dead Tuesday in Mexico after they apparently tried to quit jobs at a call center operated by a violent drug cartel that targeted Americans in a real estate scam.
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Two sets of human remains that have long defied identification – one for 30 years, the other for 17 – now have their names back.
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Dr. Noora Al Snan was finally able to link the detonation of 34 IEDs to one man—who was not in the DNA database. This was thanks to a creative application of familial searching and the common in-breeding seen in some populations in Bahrain.
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