NYU Law will offer a clinic that allows its law students to work on Innocence Project cases and learn about post-conviction wrongful conviction litigation.
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The University of the Philippines Manila will begin offering its Forensic Medicine Master’s Program in the next academic year, focusing on a systematic approach to victim identification during disasters.
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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office’s G.O.L.D. Unit has identified seven cold case sexual assault offenders through familial DNA searching and forensic genetic genealogy since November 2024.
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After 36 years—and five years of working the case—the DNA Doe Project has identified “Transgender Julie Doe” as Pamela Leigh Walton.
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Biological samples were collected and sent to the North Carolina State Crime Laboratory in Raleigh, along with comparison samples from family members of missing persons from Northeastern North Carolina and Southeastern Virginia.
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After more than a decade, human remains found on a beach near Port Angeles, Wash., have been identified as 17-year-old Jeff Surtel.
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Four federal grants were awarded to create a Cold Case Unit, increase equipment to the Digital Forensics Unit and add three lethality assessment protocol training coordinators to the Victim Services Unit.
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In a Jan. 9 brief, Louisiana prosecutors acknowledged questions surrounding the credibility of bite mark analysis but said there is no consensus on whether it is junk science.
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A new paper underscores the critical need for an enhanced federal investment in firearm injury prevention research to address the rising rates of fatalities and injuries.
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Members of the Human Identification Lab are deployed to private property or public lands, hiking across fields and ravines, and even boating or helicoptering into some of the most remote locations.
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