The University of the Philippines Manila will begin offering its Forensic Medicine Master’s Program in the next academic year, focusing on a systematic approach to victim identification during disasters.
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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office’s G.O.L.D. Unit has identified seven cold case sexual assault offenders through familial DNA searching and forensic genetic genealogy since November 2024.
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Biological samples were collected and sent to the North Carolina State Crime Laboratory in Raleigh, along with comparison samples from family members of missing persons from Northeastern North Carolina and Southeastern Virginia.
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Research shows that when specialized, integrated services are not provided, victim-survivors’ feelings of powerlessness are magnified.
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Othram is proud to announce the launch of a new project focused on the identification of 525 unidentified children. The project name and initial scope commemorates National Missing Children's Day, held each year on May 25.
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The sexual assault case backlog, currently at approximately 1,400 cases, has been significantly impacted by the demands of the Yvonne “Missy” Woods internal investigation.
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Colorado lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill last week that aims to strengthen the rules for reporting and investigating misconduct at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) crime laboratory in the wake of the Yvonne “Missy” Woods scandal.
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Evidence collected from Jon Lipari, who died by suicide in Oregon in November 2024, was linked to the victim Maria Weidhofer.
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Despite years of investigative genealogy, media outreach and social media posts, she remained unidentified for more than 40 years.
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By bringing this new SNP capture method online, AFDIL can support expeditious DNA identifications using our existing FRS DNA database.
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