Forensic science in England and Wales is not working. Not for the police, not for forensic scientists or lawyers and ultimately, it is not working for the public and the criminal justice system.
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The Clermont Police Department announced that human remains located in 2009 have been positively identified as Ernest Joe Manzanares, whose disappearance had remained unresolved for years.
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This marks the final unidentified individual on St. Petersburg Police Department's John/Jane Doe cold case list.
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NIST has released a new forensic DNA reference material, the first to include degraded DNA as well as mixtures of high-quality DNA from different individuals.
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New research shifts attention from numbers to lived experience, examining how carceral punishment in Philippine jails extends far beyond legal sentences by permeating every bodily sense.
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The case saw a significant breakthrough in 2019, when the man’s remains were exhumed. The exhumation enabled investigators to obtain a DNA profile from a femur bone.
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It is believed Patricia Ann Ritchie was last seen in 1977 in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is unknown at this time exactly when and with whom Ritchie traveled to Florida before her death.
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These efforts ultimately led to the positive identification of the remains found in 2024 as belonging to Luke Micheal Butler, whose partial remains were previously identified in 2022.
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New research confirms the potential for police forensic investigators to carefully consider the presence of pets at crime scenes as a credible new avenue for finding and investigating DNA leads to solve the case.
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A new synthetic opioid that is 10x stronger than fentanyl has been identified in the fatal overdoes of 25 people in just the last few months.
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