More than 245 years after the Maryland teen died on a bloody South Carolina battlefield, a tiny piece of his skull was used to extract his DNA and uncover his identity.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is proud to announce the expansion of the Texas Rangers’ Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program, a specialized unit dedicated to solving cold case murders and sexual assaults across the state.
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Faced with repair and maintenance costs that exceed $20 million over the next several years, the Michigan State Police has decided to close its Northville Forensic Science Laboratory and transfer the services and staff to the department’s other laboratories.
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Using advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy, David Michael Resnik is now identified, half a century after his remains were discovered in Pima County, Arizona.
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On Aug. 16, 1983, workers conducting trenching along the southwest side of a building in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona unearthed a human cranium, a collection of non-human bones, and a time capsule.
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Forensic scientists have been trying to get ahead of drug screening for years, but drug makers have made it nearly impossible by cooking up slightly modified versions of fentanyl and other drugs to avoid detection in standard screenings.
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On June 2, 1995, the body of then 33-year-old Joni Marie Grigsby was found deceased along the river outside Springfield. LCSO detectives investigated her death, and it was ultimately ruled a homicide.
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For more than three decades, investigators have searched for the identity of a woman whose remains were discovered in two separate Minnesota lakes.
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The woman, whose remains were covered by dense brush, had died from a gunshot wound. Clothing found at the scene included a long coat, black leotards, a short black dress, a red belt, white knee-high boots and a red earring.
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In a new review article, researchers explore why palpable change in the operationalization of sex and gender has been difficult to fully enact in human skeletal biology with an emphasis on forensic anthropology.
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