A $12 million state grant was used to purchase a former medical office building and renovate it into an expanded, modernized Medical Examiner’s Office that will better serve Hamilton County and the surrounding region.
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The Western Cape Government’s Forensic Toxicology Unit has become the first provincial public forensic toxicology laboratory in South Africa to achieve international accreditation for drug testing methods, marking a major milestone for forensic science in the country.
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Shane Allen Workman went missing from his home in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on April 25, 2017, over four years before his partial remains were discovered 60 miles away in Lancaster County.
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Forensic researchers discovered a security flaw in Applied Biosystems Human Identification Software—the software most American crime labs use to read DNA evidence—that left it vulnerable to nearly undetectable modification to .fsa/.hid file outputs.
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After decades of stalled leads and inconclusive testing, advanced forensic genetic genealogy finally provided the answers investigators had long sought, revealing the decedent as Armes Henry Lahti.
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Police determined the remains were an adult man, but few other details could be determined, such as his approximate age.
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The Boulder County Coroner's Office has positively identified 22-year-old, Douglas Sumner, as the individual whose remains were discovered on the upper northern rim of Blue Mesa in Bluebell Canyon on Aug. 21, 1971.
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For the first time in recent years, the laboratory’s Digital Evidence Section is now processing mobile devices as they are submitted, effectively eliminating a longstanding backlog that previously resulted in wait times of several months.
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With a focus to address ongoing nursing shortages, Midway University is offering a specialized program in the profession with its new online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Forensics program.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit has identified the remains of Kristen Galvan, a Houston-area teen who went missing in January 2020 after becoming a victim of human trafficking.
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