A study has found that while Cape Town’s forensic identification outcomes are better than previously believed, fragmented record-keeping, poor communication between stakeholders and inconsistent tracking systems continue to delay justice for many families.
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The $29 million facility will include DNA casework, latent print examination, digital forensics, and the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN). ISP Forensic Services (ISPFS) delivers scientific analysis and related services statewide.
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The study is part of Hook’s ongoing PhD research, which could help to establish the first internationally standardized approach to bloodstain pattern analysis.
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The Lake County Sheriff's Office has used forensic genetic genealogy to identify the remains of two Does¬—one homicide victim found in 1991 and another found in 1988 whose cause of death is undetermined.
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More than a decade after his remains were found in a wooded area in Daytona Beach, Mark Addison Hasbrouck is now identified.
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A wearable patch that detects fentanyl and releases naloxone automatically offers a potential new approach to preventing unwitnessed opioid overdose deaths.
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In 2026, the Office of the Attorney General and the Hopkinton Police Department reopened the investigation, employing new forensic DNA analysis and investigative techniques that identified the defendant as a potential suspect.
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A New York man is in custody for sexual battery after a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office investigation and additional DNA forensic testing shows the victim had been drugged during an assault in 2015.
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Two people whose remains had gone unidentified since the 1971 Tonti train wreck have now been identified as 35-year-old Katherine Marcelin and her 3-year-old daughter Gladys “Gigi” Adams.
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David Alan McInroy, who died by drowning in Arizona's Lake Patagonia State Park, has been identified nearly 50 years after his remains were found.
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