The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office brought the case to the DNA Doe Project as part of a collaboration with Ramapo College of New Jersey’s new Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center, an undergraduate certificate program offering practical experience on real cases to its students.
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The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the "Trumpington Cross") has been reconstructed following analysis of her skull.
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Enhanced human verification techniques and practices will always be required to ensure accuracy and ward off inherent biases.
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Forensic anthropologists have found evidence of ancient human burials that predate the earliest currently known Homo sapiens’ burials by at least 100,000 years.
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Officers with the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene and located the human remains inside of a garment bag buried in a shallow grave.
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Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording actually belongs to the suspect?
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NDIS approval provides access to federal government funding for accredited public crime laboratories in the U.S. to implement next-generation sequencing (NGS) for routine casework.
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Southern Methodist University is creating a federally funded data warehouse to centralize data collection and support research into human trafficking in the United States.
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After 47 years, an unidentified homicide victim, found off an highway, has now been identified as Douglas Streeter.
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A team of archaeologists and forensic specialists from Cranfield Forensic Institute assisted with the recovery and identification of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Edgar L. Mills who was killed in action over Germany during the Second World War.
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