When human remains need to be identified, and the usual ways of putting a name to the deceased have been exhausted, the RCMP often calls in an expert who can help – a forensic dentist.
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A declining number of employees at the State Crime Lab in Bismarck (North Dakota) has limited what evidence can be processed for law enforcement agencies, according to the attorney general.
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In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, residents were surprised to find skeletal remains in the roots of an upended 103-year-old tree.
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A man freed from prison last year after serving nearly 60 years in the slaying of one of three suburban Chicago women found bludgeoned to death in a state park has won court approval for DNA testing of evidence found at the crime scene.
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Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre.
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The unit will now have three full time detectives—instead of one—and their work will expand to include both unsolved homicide and sexual assaults.
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Only 27.5% of those surveyed who said they had suffered abuse confirmed they had disclosed it when they were children.
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One of the six remaining unnamed John Wayne Gacy victims has been identified 44 years after he was murdered with the assistance of genetic genealogy.
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Othram recovered human DNA from the bone and used that hereditary material to conduct a genealogical profile, which led to a family in North Carolina.
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Marion County Sheriff Matt Bayles announced the department has identified the victim of a 1989 cold case homicide, 32 years later.
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