A research team in Poland has developed a new forensic method that allows more information to be obtained from a single sample by taking an interdisciplinary approach.
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Through advancements in DNA technology and decades of investigative work, she has now been identified as Melinda “Pip” Beardsley, a mother who had been missing since the mid-1970s.
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Forty years after a man committed multiple sexual assaults in Georgia, the suspect has been identified as 60-year-old Glenn Daniel Plybon.
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The last known photograph of Mark Smith was taken at his sister’s wedding in September 1973. He left his home in Billings, Montana, to travel in 1974, and was not heard from again.
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In 2025, the Indiana State Police received a budget increase, including a 20.8% increase from under $15 million to $18 million for the ISP Forensic Laboratory, a boost of over $3 million.
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Dr. Lee was a distinguished professor at the University of New Haven for more than 50 years and former Commissioner of Connecticut Public Safety.
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Investigators located cigarettes at the crime scene that were believed to have belonged to the suspect. However, forensic science at the time was limited, and DNA testing did not yet exist.
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After nearly 50 years, genetic genealogy has helped identify the suspect in a cold case homicide that plagued the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin for decades.
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