Forty-nine years after Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker had enough foresight to save DNA evidence from the rape kits he collected from women at least once a day, Baltimore County has committed to testing all of that preserved evidence over the next 13 months.
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More than three decades later, a man whose body was found in a Spokane, WA landfill is now known to be Clifford Wayne Bippes, born September 25, 1943.
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The photo-realistic digital images were generated in hopes of increasing the chances that someone will come forward to assist in identification.
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Despite an increase in the volume and complexity of submissions to FSI, the agency is performing very well, and has met or exceeded the majority of its targets.
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A newly developed prediction model may be able to calculate the risk of opioid relapse among individuals in the early stages of medication treatment—as early as three weeks into therapy.
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has sent a letter of inquiry to 23andMe after a data breach last month, expressing concerns about the fallout, as well as the possible ethnicity implications of the stolen data.
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The woman's manner of death was determined to be homicide. She became known as “Cleburne County Jane Doe.”
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The new Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons opens access to important forensic information and biological profiles.
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Approximately 3,000 kits have been located and will be tested as part of this initiative. Many of these kits pre-dated the advent of DNA technologies.
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The blast at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital’s parking lot on Oct. 17, 2023, has become a flash point in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. But, independent experts have not examined the physical scene outside the hospital to determine what actually happened.
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