Experts had estimated Smith’s IQ from 64 on the low end and 75 on the high end, but courts have ruled he was eligible for the death penalty.
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More than 40 years after its invention, Sanger sequencing remains the gold standard for DNA sequencing.
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Fifteen of the flats have been repurposed to create more practical scenarios for forensic science and criminal investigation students.
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In 1984, Lester Rome from Grand Isle, Louisiana was reported missing to Jefferson Parish authorities.
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Scientific analysis by Cranfield Forensic Institute has proven that a stoneware dish is a 1000-year-old Chinese Song dynasty treasure, the rarest of all Imperial Chinese ceramics.
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Investigators from the Atlanta Police Department traveled to a private lab in Salt Lake City to physically hand over DNA evidence associated with a terrifying 2-year murder spree that resulted in the death of at least 28 people, most of them children.
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An attorney for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed has told a judge that new evidence suggests the 19-year-old woman his client was convicted of killing may instead have been strangled by her jealous boyfriend.
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These findings have renewed calls for the need of separation between law enforcement and coroners/forensic medical professionals.
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Karabiyik is working on the data collected in cases of mass incidents with multiple victims, including terrorist attacks domestic or international.
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Henry County (Virginia) Sheriff Lane Perry has assembled a multi-agency task force to review the murders of Michael, Mary and Jennifer Short.
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