Officers discovered the person has been abducted and sexually assaulted. Evidence, including DNA, was collected on scene and by medical personnel at the University of Connecticut Medical Center.
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Julie Ann Hanson was reported missing on July 8, 1972. Her body was discovered later that same day in a field in Naperville near 87th Street and Modaff Road. She had been stabbed multiple times.
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On Tuesday, Oregon became the second state to pass legislation prohibiting law enforcement officers from using deception while interrogating people under the age of 18.
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Legalization of recreational cannabis may be associated with an increase in fatal motor vehicle collisions based on data from the United States, and authors discuss the implications for Canada in an analysis.
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The identification of unknown particles by comparison of scanning electron microscopy - energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) data to reference materials is valuable because it provides fast results describing particle composition and morphology with limited sample preparation.
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In the two weeks they have been back on site, forensic anthropologists and other researchers have more than doubled the number of graves and bodies found in the search for unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Virginia Maxwell is a leader in the field of investigating animal cruelty, and she has developed a new online graduate certificate that is among the only such programs in the country.
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Mary Bush has been instrumental in raising awareness of bite mark analysis as flawed evidence, and was among one of the first researchers to question the validity of the science.
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Magnet Forensics is awarding four scholarships to investigators based in the U.S., Greece, Nigeria and Brazil to help promising individuals advance in the field of digital forensics.
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The study says differences in children's brains, which affect their sensitivity to pressure and rewards, and differences in the way they process information, make it more likely they will admit to crimes they didn't commit when incentivized to do so.
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