The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has unlocked a cell phone that was used to capture video of a June 2021 incident in Minneapolis during which Winston Smith was fatally shot by law enforcement.
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"There are very, very few places that have students in the middle of the night out there actually doing the real world work, which is the only way I think I can appropriately train students to do this work,” said Spaulding.
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In the Boulder Police Department’s annual statement on the JonBenet Ramsey case, Police Chief Stephen Redfearn refuted the idea that there is viable evidence or leads in the case that they are not pursing.
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Forensic investigators now have more information on the performance of identification technologies for biological fluids.
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In 2005, DNA collected at the crime scene was sent into CODIS; however, no matches could be found. With a grant offered by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office in 2022, the cold case detective sergeant submitted the DNA to a third-party lab for genetic genealogy—and they found a match.
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The woman's body was found burning in a pile of tires. Her hands and feet had been removed and were never recovered.
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A project by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) looking at previously closed cases where advances in forensic science could now provide new evidence about the identity of an offender has moved into its second phase.
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Investigators in Amsterdam have deployed a unique campaign to try to generate leads in the 2009 murder of 19-year-old Bernadett “Betty” Szabó: a hologram of Szabó sits behind a window and asks for help.
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It appeared the remains located within the shallow grave had been there for an extended time, and the partial articles of clothing collected suggested 1980’s styles.
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The Concord Police Department (California) has announced the arrest of a suspect in a nearly 24-year-old cold case involving the sexual assault of a quadriplegic victim in her apartment.
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