In addition to the unit receiving recognition, Latent Print Examiner Elizabeth Molina was recognized as Latent Examiner of the Year.
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In March 2023, I got a call from our partners at the FBI and the Latah County Prosecutor. The FBI had lawfully accessed the phone and laptop of the accused murderer, Bryan Kohberger (BK), and after parsing through the data, they were disappointed to learn there wasn’t much there.
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It was clear the unidentified man had Ecuadorean ancestry, but a lack of records and endogamy complicated the investigative genetic genealogy research on this case.
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Kimberly Carter was a 19-year-old mother of three who disappeared under suspicious circumstances from Kansas City, Missouri on July 5, 1984.
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Process mapping is used to visually represent a workflow's critical steps and decision points.
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Age estimation in adult individual remains is challenging, often with errors of plus or minus ten years.
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It’s been 73 years since a C-124 Globemaster II, carrying 52 military members tragically crashed into Mount Gannett in the Chugach Mountains of eastern Alaska, forty miles from its destination of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
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This week-long event serves as an opportunity to raise public awareness about the vital role forensic science plays in the criminal justice system, from exonerating the innocent to identifying the guilty.
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On July 24, 1976, skeletal remains of a young woman were found in the area of Wolf Creek near Swamp Mountain in Linn County. For 49 years, her identity was not known—until now.
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She recalled that a man by the name of Chett Williams had been living with her parents around 1998-1999 and had suddenly disappeared.
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