Igor Lednev, a professor at University at Albany, has been pioneering the use of Raman spectroscopy for forensic analyses for more than a decade. In 2019, after 11 years of NIJ funding valued at $3 million, more than 60 published articles and three U.S. patents, Lednev founded SupraMEtric LLC, a spin-off company based on his novel technology.
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The female victim was known in the area as “Jane Doe 3UFMT” and “Christy Crystal Creek” and is one of the three Jane Doe victims of suspected serial killer, Wayne Nance.
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Glasgow Caledonian University will become the first university in Scotland to develop a cold case unit in partnership with Locate International, a community interest company that works with higher education institutions to help progress historical cases.
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The court’s decision was based on new palm print evidence found at the crime scene identifying an alternative suspect, and exculpatory evidence that the prosecution improperly withheld from the defense regarding the reliability of informant testimony.
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Arkansas is one of four demonstration sites in the country to receive federal funding from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime to establish digital health sexual assault services that will improve care, access and quality of sexual assault forensic exams.
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Nearly 200 years later, the great-great-great grandson of the HMC Erebus’s engineer provided a DNA sample that confirmed the identity of skeletal remains first discovered in 1859 as Warrant Officer John Gregory—the first member of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to be positively identified.
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In November 1980, an archaeologist discovered a shallow grave in an isolated San Bernardino desert area which contained the bodies of two unidentified homicide victims, a male, and a female.
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A collaboration between health care providers and a death investigation agency supports evidence-based outcomes to reduce stranded motorist loss of life on Texas highways.
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It wasn’t until Karl Berendt began a forensic analysis of those charred bones that details of the fire and the lives it claimed began to emerge.
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has established a new Bureau tasked with assisting the homeless population and those with mental health disorders through a robust program that includes proactive engagement, case management and resource distribution.
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