What do a 17-year-old cold case strangulation, a 25-year-old murder and a 4-day crime spree have in common? These cases, in addition to about 250 others, were all solved by Texas investigators this year thanks to the enactment of the Krystal Jean Baker Act in September 2019.
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Authorities in North Carolina say that a man has been arrested on charges of attempted murder and rape nearly 30 years after police say the crimes were committed.
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Authorities in Idaho have accepted an unresolved case from 1984 as part of a genetic genealogy study that could help police identify a body found 36 years ago.
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For the first time ever, police and detectives can revisit a murder scene without any distractions or time limitations.
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The number of people who went missing during the first national lockdown in England fell by over a third. However, a new report shows that those who did go missing were deemed more vulnerable and at higher risk.
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In both ethical and scientific respects, Roma population groups are treated inappropriately in DNA databases and in genetic studies – potentially with consequences for investigations that draw on forensic genetic databases.
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Learning what really happened to these animals and bringing justice to possible animal abusers is a focus of Adam Stern. Two new programs Stern started this past year aim to do just that.
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A Connecticut man has been arrested in connection with four armed sexual assaults dating to 1984 thanks to information from a genealogy database, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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Demand for forensic software remains high due to the role it plays in helping solve crimes and excluding individuals wrongly associated as the source of crime scene evidence.
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To better understand how responses to the COVID 19 outbreak affected crime patterns, Borrion and colleagues drew on resilience theory, which considers the ability of systems to adapt and survive in the face of perturbations.
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