During the routine processing of a sexual assault kit, the victim’s standard was discovered to be a two-person mixture.
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In her view, there would be substantial benefits to requiring burial rather than cremation for unidentified bodies and partial remains, where practicable.
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Over the years with technology advancement in this field, the results yielded that DNA collected from the scene linked Pittman to the death of Garcia.
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To produce those results, a growing number of labs are accessing a combination of software solutions that enable them to complete the full workflow, from DNA analysis to interpretation and database matching.
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The Korey Wise Innocence Project and the ACLU of Colorado have sent a letter to the Director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with concerns over its response to the misconduct of former DNA analyst Yvonne “Missy” Woods.
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The aerosol cans contained DNA that was deemed "uninterpretable," and, astonishingly, a lab technician’s DNA was discovered on the paper towel tube they claimed I had used to ignite the fire. The truth, as it turns out, lay buried under layers of forensic misconduct.
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The cold case team determined that, although Williamson was seemingly cleared by the polygraph in 1979, he was never cleared through DNA because the technology had not yet been developed.
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The Concord Police Department (California) has announced the arrest of a suspect in a nearly 24-year-old cold case involving the sexual assault of a quadriplegic victim in her apartment.
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The case was unsolved for more than 50 years, but with the help of recent advancements in DNA testing, Choate was identified and arrested.
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Forensic DNA analysis is less certain when untangling DNA mixtures from groups with low genetic diversity, University of Oregon researchers reported this fall in the journal iScience.
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