The Supreme Court of Ohio has vacated the conviction of a man linked by investigative genetic genealogy to the kidnapping, rape and attempted murder of a woman in 1993, finding the statute of limitations to charge him with attempted aggravated murder ran out 20 years before his indictment.
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With no suspect then being identified, the rape evidence kit remained in the MCSO evidence room until 2016, when a project resourced by the State of Michigan made resources available to examine all untested rape kits.
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The AFP will have access to specialized forensic DNA testing, not currently available in Australia, to identify human remains and develop new leads for unsolved crimes, by partnering with a world-leading forensic genomics laboratory.
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At least two clandestine graves holding human remains were found in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, state authorities said earlier this week.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the launch of a new online portal to allow survivors of sexual assault to track the status of their sexual assault evidence kits and the hiring of the state’s first-ever sexual assault evidence outreach coordinator, Dr. Sarai Crain.
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If countries do not work cooperatively on an FIGG framework, the forensic community could end up with a fractured system vulnerable to inadvertent legal missteps.
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Nothing was found to be able to identify the remains or to assist in determining how or why the person had died or how they ended up in the farmer’s field.
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The LVMPD has arrested the suspect in the murder of
25-year-old Sandra DiFelice, who was found dead in her home nearly 42 years ago.
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The coffins, then the remains, will be examined to see if they match reports from 1921 that the victims were males buried in plain caskets.
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They said Hooper was convicted and sentenced on unreliable witness testimony, no physical evidence links him to the crime and an analysis of key fingerprint and DNA evidence was scientifically unavailable at the time of his trial.
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