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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While it currently takes the office 8 months to more than a year to identify a decedent via DNA, the new system will produce DNA identification results in under two hours.
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Authorities say they have solved the 50-year-old killing of an Iowa teen but not before the suspect died of old age.
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A group of specialists are assessing forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) as an investigative tool after recently completing a world-first graduate certificate in FGG in the United States.
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In the first two weeks of October alone, the Houston Forensic Science Center’s 39-member crime scene unit (CSU) has responded to 27 homicides, and 24 other scenes, for a total of 1,171 scenes this year.
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New York real estate heir Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more than two decades ago.
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