DNA extracted from five locks of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair has revealed interesting—and unexpected—insights about his health and ancestry.
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This summer, two forensic science faculty members from Arizona State University will travel to Paraguay to aid in the excavation of a mass grave containing victims of Operation Condor in Lambaré.
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A murder suspect in a 1979 cold case in California has been arrested after investigators found a DNA match to a rape committed 15 years later in Washington.
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In the 20 years since Colorado’s original post-conviction DNA testing statute was enacted, it has only allowed a handful of petitioners to access DNA testing.
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Attorney General Law Enforcement Directive 2023-1 requires longer retention of evidence, including DNA evidence, from sexual assault medical examinations not processed by a lab at the survivor’s request, extending the current required retention period from five years to 20 years.
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During the renewed investigation, detectives obtained further evidence due to advances in DNA testing that made it possible to reevaluate.
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The remains may date to the 1890s and were discovered near the Fishing Village, a site of ongoing archaeological research on the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Heritage Preserve, following Hurricane Irma in 2017.
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Advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy revealed that the remains found in 2021 were displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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A young woman who died in 1891 in Sanford, Maine has been identified as Edith Patten. Her coffin and remains had been left behind after the city relocated the rest of the graves.
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The unknown man, found in an apartment parking lot in Lexington, Kentucky, has now been identified as 40-year-old Jimmy Lawrence Medlock.
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