Recent technological advances have revolutionized the ability to solve previously intractable cold cases with forensic genomics and genetic genealogy.
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Reality is leading many jurisdictions in the United States to take the unprecedented step of releasing large numbers of inmates to prevent coronavirus outbreaks.
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This program, which has been in the planning phase for several months, will be aimed at providing emotional support to victims of crime, particularly children.
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The evidence drying cabinets at the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory are putting in overtime during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Eleven Massachusetts police departments have been selected to participate in a pilot program aimed at distributing fentanyl test strips to help stem the number of overdose deaths in the state.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday named former Dallas police Chief David Brown to head the police force in the nation's third largest city, touting his humility and calling him “a leader who commands respect.”
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The Marshall University Forensic Science Center has entered into a collaborative partnership with the ANDE Corporation, which is placing a Rapid DNA instrument at the MUFSC for DNA analysts to evaluate for future validation and testing.
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Using a smartphone to shoot a continuous video of the front and sides of the face generates a dense cloud of data.
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Serious felonies dropped 17 percent in New York City from March 16 to March 22 compared to last year. Chicago homicides dropped 29 percent the week of March 21, the day an Illinois stay-at-home order went into effect.
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The accused, David Kahl, has been a suspect from the very beginning but lab tests have been inconclusive, until now. Cybergenetics and TrueAllele have finally matched DNA from the victim's jeans to Kahl.
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