A new study argues prevention efforts should move beyond resource-intensive community coalitions and become part of schools, healthcare and everyday technology.
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After more than four decades, investigators have positively identified human remains discovered in 1981 as Thelma Gaston.
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Womack Army Medical Center’s Forensic Healthcare Program recently conducted its annual competency training, convening more than 30 forensic nurses, medical providers, and legal experts to refine the clinical and courtroom proficiencies essential for the comprehensive care of trauma victims.
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Uncovering the most amount of device data in digital investigations is often critical to finding the evidence needed for successful prosecutions.
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She has now been identified as Sheila Anne Nichols, a 16-year-old girl living in Decatur, Georgia with her family in 1983. So how did her body end up 650 miles away from home? Who killed her? And what happened to her sister, who also went missing around the same time?
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Years of research led to a Croatian woman who immigrated to the US in 1905 and gave birth to a daughter a year later. Difficult family circumstances led to this daughter being entrusted to the care of an orphanage.
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The driver of the Volkswagen was the only survivor of that vehicle and told investigators at the time that he had met the male passenger only the day before, knowing little about him.
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The study is expected to become one of the most comprehensive evaluations of forensic genetic genealogy performance across ancestral populations relevant to U.S.-based forensic investigations.
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Michael Charney would later urge law-enforcement and other agencies nationwide to improve and standardize victim identification using such scientific teams.
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In 2013, Chicago Public Schools closed 49 elementary schools, the largest mass public school closure in U.S. history at the time. A new study shows that, in addition to limiting access to education, the school closures also led to increases in gun violence.
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