South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that groups that help crime victims across South Carolina will soon be getting more than $31 million in federal and state grants.
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Emanuele Alves is developing a device that could offer results within minutes and reduce false positives.
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In a series of unusual happenings, cold case detectives from the Fairfax County Police Department (Virginia) have obtained a full confession from the prime suspect in the brutal 1994 murder of a 37-year-old mother.
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The man's cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head. Despite investigators multiple attempts to identity the man, his identity remained a mystery.
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Work to identify unmarked burials—at the invitation of the Saint Damien Burial Council on Moloka?i—will be ramping up, thanks to a $168,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Hawai?i–West O?ahu.
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Smaller agencies—like those in rural areas—don't have the resources to get the same level of training on emerging techniques and technologies as those agencies in urban areas.
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Recently acquired in vitro pharmacological data shows this emergent novel synthetic opioid—called N-pyrrolidino protonitazene (also protonitazepyne)—is 25x more potent than fentanyl.
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The man and woman are the 1,648th and 1,649th persons to be identified by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner using advanced DNA testing of remains recovered from the attack that took the lives of 2,753 people.
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Although 1978 DNA testing abilities were limited compared with the testing abilities of today, the samples were believed to contain DNA. However, an analysis could not be completed due to technological limitations.
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While the cause of death is unknown, it was estimated to have occurred between 1964 and 1974. Police suspect that the remains were submerged in Kusawa Lake or the Takhini River for a period of time prior to discovery.
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