The initial investigation in 2007 went unsolved due to limitations in DNA technology; however, the sexual assault kits from these cases were recently submitted for testing.
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The Queensland Government will provide an initial investment of more than $95 million to establish a new framework to drive significant reforms to DNA and forensic services as part of its response to recommendations from the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland.
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Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Corrections Department seeking to ensure access for prison inmates to medication that reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms or cravings.
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When agencies begin or continue the process of auditing digital forensic workflows to obtain accreditation, the change process becomes more prominent—and concerns and negative feelings among officers and staff may also rise.
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On a Saturday in April 1994, 89-year-old Lillian DeCloe relaxed at her Pompano Beach home and awaited a visit later that day from a niece who helped care for her. That visit would never happen.
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After more than four decades, Long Beach John Doe is now known to be Kenneth Nevada Williams, a 15-year-old who had run away from his home in the City of La Puente in 1978.
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The Governor’s STEM Scholars Cyber Forensics Laboratory is a first-of-its-kind initiative to train New Jersey high school students in the emerging field of cyber-social threat identification and forecasting.
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In a new article, a 2022 winner of the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology argues that to understand desistance—the process of reducing or ending criminal behavior—we must consider the role of individuals’ cognitive transformations.
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A former lead detective on the JonBenét Ramsey murder case—and the person who interviewed JonBenét’s parents four months after the murder—has been disciplined for failing to investigate cases. However, not all parties involved agree the reprimand doled out fits the seriousness of the misconduct.
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The remains were initially thought to have been of an Indigenous American, and belong to a female due to the small stature.
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