The initial report indicated the remains were like that of an African American female in her late teens to early 20s. Cold case detectives connected with Othram earlier this year and learned the remains belonged to a Caucasian female.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District will provide all its schools with a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, after at least seven teenagers overdosed on pills likely laced with fentanyl in recent weeks, including a 15-year-old girl who died on a high school campus.
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A soldier from Massachusetts who went missing during the Korean War and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp has been accounted for using modern scientific techniques.
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Highly educated autistic people have long found work in tech—but now two Dutch entrepreneurs are training socially isolated autistic dropouts and finding productive jobs for them. The approach could be a model for America.
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A major break came earlier this year when a suspect was identified through DNA analysis. That suspect is currently in prison serving a life sentence for another unrelated murder, and he has been incarcerated since 1993.
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"I would never have dreamed we’d have a 94 percent success rate. We’re just a small laboratory. You don’t have to be a big, expensive operation to give back to your community."
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How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains.
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A new study found that the average rate of assaults with firearms increased an average of 9.5 percent relative to forecasted trends in the first 10 years after 34 states relaxed restrictions on civilians carrying concealed firearms in public.
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Many universities, organizations, police departments and others are celebrating and acknowledging the hard work forensic professionals put into their jobs, especially given the mental toll working with crime investigations can have on an individual.
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After more than four decades, and attempts by several DNA testing labs, Ralph Tufano has successfully been identified.
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