Track-Kit provides victim survivors with 24/7, online access to information about the status of their sexual assault kit. The goal of the Track-Kit system is to increase accountability and transparency for what can be a lengthy process.
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M-Vac technology has helped cold case detectives in Montgomery County, Texas solve their oldest homicide case—the 1979 abduction, rape and murder of 12-year-old Lesia Michell Jackson.
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced his office’s DNA forensic genetic genealogy program has now helped solve three cold cases, including one with multiple victims.
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Authorities have arrested a woman in the killing of a Texas couple who was found beaten to death in their home more than 17 years ago.
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The unique DNA markers that define this haplogroup, or shared lineage, were passed down from mother to daughter to granddaughter—never through fathers—for 100,000 years.
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An appeals court stayed this week’s execution of a death row inmate who had raised questions about whether prosecutors had presented false and inaccurate testimony from an expert on whether he would commit more crimes in the future.
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Anew study has found a potential causal mechanism underlying gender and cultural biases—major differences in the perceptions of the prevalence of crimes.
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Anne Pham disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class at Highland Elementary School on January 21, 1982. She was never seen alive again.
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Teachers from around the U.S. recently convened to explore new ways to engage their students in STEM learning through the lens of forensic science at the conference.
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Fifty newly identified victims were honored and reburied Monday in Bosnia as thousands gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust.
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