A man accused of being the rapist and killer who terrorized California residents in the 1970s and 1980s has agreed to plead guilty to dozens of crimes in return for being spared the death penalty.
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In May 2017, the Sheriff’s Office requested ISO Forensics to pull oxygen isotopes from the remains to predict areas of the United States that the victim could be from.
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The most comprehensive wastewater study ever undertaken in Australia has revealed the presence of 15 new psychoactive substances in the country’s metropolitan and regional wastewaters over the past three years.
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Microsoft has become the third big tech company to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM.
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After further investigation, the case was identified as a candidate for the department's familial DNA search tool, which mines CODIS to find DNA that may match that of an offender’s relative.
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Deciding how to process evidence when looking to retrieve identifiable friction ridge patterns can be difficult at times.
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Escambia County Sheriff’s Office investigators launched a full investigation, several suspects were interviewed and investigated. DNA evidence was collected on scene, but lack of technology made it impossible to use for an arrest.
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Researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry, unrecognizable pictures of people's faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before.
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Maine AG Aaron Frey agreed to review the fatal shooting of a teenager by a police officer more than a decade ago. The forensic evidence didn’t sync with statements the police officer made about the shooting to investigators.
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Researchers have developed a fundamentally new approach to DNA data storage systems, giving users the ability to read or modify data files without destroying them and making the systems easier to scale up for practical use.
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