Following an investigation by Thames Valley Police’s Major Crime Review Team, a man has been convicted of the murder of a woman and the rape of a girl that happened in the 1980s.
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A DNA hit was located on fingernail scrapings and bodily fluid from bedding recovered at the scene.
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Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn’s Untested Rape Kit Initiative has resulted in the first indictment related to previously untested rape kits.
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The 2022 DNA Hit of the Year program is looking at how Latin America is leveraging their incredibly successful DNA database programs to solve serial sexual assaults, missing persons cases and more.
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“Sarah’s case could have been solved decades earlier if Washington state had stronger DNA policies in place. Why aren’t they in place? Shouldn’t the state do what they can to utilize the full potential of DNA to solve crime, prevent crime and exonerate the innocent?”
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The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in an attempt to identify skeletal remains that were discovered in 1977.
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Just a year and a half after Bronx investigators used familial DNA for the first time to arrest a man for the 1999 rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl, an appeals court halted the use of the technique.
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The innovation helped accelerate successful investigation and prosecution of sexual assault in the United States and whose influence continues to this day.
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The new Human Forensic DNA Analysis Process Map captures details about the various procedures, methods and decision points most frequently encountered in human forensic biology/DNA analysis.
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After criticizing the Boulder (Colorado) Police Department (BPD) of “pride” and “ego,” John Ramsey, father of JonBenet Ramsey, threw his support behind a petition that asks the governor of Colorado to take the case out of the hands of BPD.
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