A wearable patch that detects fentanyl and releases naloxone automatically offers a potential new approach to preventing unwitnessed opioid overdose deaths.
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In 2026, the Office of the Attorney General and the Hopkinton Police Department reopened the investigation, employing new forensic DNA analysis and investigative techniques that identified the defendant as a potential suspect.
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A New York man is in custody for sexual battery after a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office investigation and additional DNA forensic testing shows the victim had been drugged during an assault in 2015.
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Two people whose remains had gone unidentified since the 1971 Tonti train wreck have now been identified as 35-year-old Katherine Marcelin and her 3-year-old daughter Gladys “Gigi” Adams.
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David Alan McInroy, who died by drowning in Arizona's Lake Patagonia State Park, has been identified nearly 50 years after his remains were found.
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After decades of unanswered questions, detectives with the Orlando Police Department’s Cold Case Unit have identified two men whose deaths had remained unresolved since 1982 and 1996.
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The accreditation covers all three emphases of the Forensic Investigation major: Crime Scene Investigation, Medicolegal Death Investigation and Laboratory. UW-Platteville is among a very small number of forensic science programs nationwide to hold this accreditation.
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The new video series dives beneath the surface of some of cinema’s most unforgettable moments, exploring everything from forensic investigations and criminal behavior to filmmaking, storytelling and set design.
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Two murders. Two women. Two miles apart. Two decades unsolved, but detectives refuse to give up.
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Despite early investigative efforts, the woman's identity was unknown. Progress stalled until the mid-2000s, when previously stored evidence was located and submitted for STR DNA analysis.
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