While physical evidence—DNA, trace evidence, latent prints, and toxicology—remains the backbone of forensic science, the modern crime scene is saturated with pixels.
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Advances in familial DNA technology that were utilized to reevaluate old profiles yielded a person of interest this summer. An abandonment sample taken from the defendant confirmed that his DNA matched the DNA from the 1995 rape kit.
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The New Jersey State Police have identified Larry Burney as the suspect in the 1982 murder of William Jenkins of East Orange. Burney died in 2005 while incarcerated at South Woods State Prison.
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The retiree, who used a cane, was returning from Easter shopping at approximately 7 p.m. on Good Friday when a man grabbed her and dragged her to a secluded stairwell.
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The infant’s DNA profile generated a hit to Amos, a former Pine Bluff resident whose DNA was in CODIS as a result of prior felony arrests and convictions.
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Eighteen of those deaths were in Tennessee. Seventeen of those victims were recovered in the aftermath of the storm—everyone except Nancy Tucker.
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The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is taking a new step in a nearly 50-year-old cold case involving an unidentified newborn whose body was discovered in a wooded area of Benton County in 1977.
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Forty-two years ago, on September 14, 1984, a young Black woman was murdered during a domestic violence incident on Eppirt Street in 6, East Orange, New Jersey.
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In 2023, human remains were discovered in a wooded area near South Military Trail in unincorporated Boynton Beach. For years, we didn’t know who she was.
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West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey announced $582,174 in federal grant funding for the West Virginia State Police to expand DNA testing capacity, reduce processing times, and help law enforcement solve crimes.
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