Anthropologists report they have found the oldest documented site of a mass killing in what is now Croatia. Findings from the 6,200-year-old massacre were published in PLOS ONE earlier this month.
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Police conducted an extensive investigation into the woman’s murder but were not able to identify her or obtain any leads. The case grew cold. At the time, police relied heavily on fingerprints and dental records in hopes to identify human remains.
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Simeoni will use a laboratory wind tunnel at WPI, field studies in a New Jersey forest, and data analysis to determine if scars on a landscape, ash deposits, and other indicators widely used by investigators reliably point to the place where a wildfire originates.
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Penn State and Croatian faculty recently collaborated on the identification of the remains of Sister Marija Krucifiksa Kozulic (1852–1922), a Croatian nun who is in consideration for beatification by the Vatican.
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What's better at finding a hidden bomb—a dog or an electronic chemical detector? In this episode, the Reactions team travels to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to find out.
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The experience exposed Aberra to the drug side of crime, and that activated an interest in getting outside of the lab and onto the streets.
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In an unprecedented partnership, undergraduate criminal justice students at Western Michigan University will receive access to and work on case files from unsolved murders in southwest Michigan.
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DNA evidence has helped Seattle Police detectives identify and arrest a Seattle woman for the death of her newborn son, who was found in the trash can of a Lake City gas station restroom in 1997.
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An international team of researchers have identified 50 new genes for eye color in the largest genetic study of its kind to date. The study involved the genetic analysis of almost 195,000 people across Europe and Asia.
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A new center established by the University of Bristol to help protect citizens online has created a shared data science framework to help law enforcement investigate organized crime.
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