The 2022 DNA Hit of the Year program is looking at how Latin America is leveraging their incredibly successful DNA database programs to solve serial sexual assaults, missing persons cases and more.
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The American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors announced 13 forensic laboratories as recipients of the Foresight Maximus Award, a distinction recognizing the top performing forensic laboratories in the world based on Foresight business metrics.
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Countering transnational organized crime efforts are carried out in three main ways: interdiction, intelligence, and investigation.
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Mass public shootings in which four or more people are killed have become more frequent, and deadly, in the last decade. And the tragedy in Buffalo is the latest in a recent trend of mass public shootings taking place in retail establishments.
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When it comes to disposing of unused drugs, we make doing the right thing unnecessarily hard. So instead, patients tuck pills away and promise to get around to it soon. That increases the risk of misuse and overdose.
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“Sarah’s case could have been solved decades earlier if Washington state had stronger DNA policies in place. Why aren’t they in place? Shouldn’t the state do what they can to utilize the full potential of DNA to solve crime, prevent crime and exonerate the innocent?”
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By utilizing the DNA and dental, forensic scientists were able to process the biological evidence to determine the identity was that of Susan Hoppes, who was reported missing from Washington on August 9, 1993.
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The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in an attempt to identify skeletal remains that were discovered in 1977.
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In spite of the success, however, the DNA profile did not match in any government database. Once again, the case went cold.
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When VCU Department of Forensic Science graduate student Jamie Zaleta needed cartridge casings for her thesis project, the room became both a firing range and a classroom.
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