On August 16, 1975, the body of a deceased female, found bound, gagged, and wrapped in a tarp was discovered in a drainage ditch in East Haven, Conn.
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In February 2021, the case was entered into NamUs as UP77898. With few leads to go on, the case soon went cold.
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The District Attorney’s Office will soon be implementing and operating a self-contained digital forensic laboratory conducted by a civilian forensic examiner after receiving more than $497,000 in grant funding from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
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The Center for Forensic Anthropology at Northern Michigan University, which includes the Forensic Research Outdoor Station (FROST), recently received a $30,000 subaward to help validate a novel method for estimating human time since death.
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Mexico has finally published guidelines for the long-awaited National Forensic Data Bank, a database officials hope can help find and identify the more than 100,000 people registered as missing in the country.
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An autopsy revealed the most striking aspect of injury was blunt force trauma but, due to the body's state of decomposition, a majority of the soft tissue was gone.
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Detectives learned Michael Ruff Wigley was investigated in the early 1980’s for two separate incidents of sexual assault cases in central Texas.
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Police officers can often identify which driver is responsible for a traffic accident. But what about when a self-driving vehicle is involved? Which driver should be liable for that?
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Steg.AI, a startup company based on artificial intelligence technology developed at Rutgers, is aiming to help businesses and organizations protect their media assets and intellectual property by making it easier to detect deepfakes.
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In the most promising breakthrough yet, forensic scientists and researchers have generated investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) profiles for 6 unidentified individuals excavated from Oaklawn Cemetery during the 1921Graves investigation to identify victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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