Expanding on years of mass spectrometry-based fingerprint detection technology and research, Melanie Bailey and her team have now proven a single fingerprint left at a crime scene can be used to determine whether someone has ingested cocaine or simply touched it.
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Trips down to the department’s evidence room only deepened Brady’s frustration. Most of the evidence in cold rape cases had disappeared, everything from blood samples to basic investigative records.
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NC State was recently announced as one of two forensic anthropology subcontractors with RTI International on the management of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs).
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On June 5, 2011, patrol officers from the New Castle County Division of Police were dispatched to the wooded area of Sellers Park off Edgemoor Road for the discovery of human bones.
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A $1 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will help the state address key findings of the University of Louisville Human Trafficking Research Initiative’s Project PIVOT, a two-year research project.
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Forensic scientists can determine a strength of match. This match statistic summarizes in a single number just how strongly a person is connected to DNA evidence. Many courts require such a statistic before accepting DNA evidence.
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Neuman was a teenager when she was raped by a stranger in Baltimore in 1983. Her rapist had never been caught, but she had never let go. She called Baltimore police over the years until she found two determined city detectives to investigate her case in 2002.
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Valentine became interested in the potential of touch DNA after a 2011 breakthrough case in Utah, when a young woman was violently groped, but the assailant left no bodily fluids that could be tested.
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The case—known in popular culture as Babes in the Woods—dates back to 1953, when skeletal remains of two boys were discovered by a groundskeeper near Beaver Lake, in Stanley Park.
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Several bodies with gunshot wounds to the head, personal effects and parts of clothing have already been recovered and in total the team are searching for 26 people in this excavation.
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