Less than a month after announcing $3 million in funding for 44 local law enforcement agencies to help their drug task forces, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is seeking even more for narcotics intelligence.
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In October 1991, a hunter was quail hunting in a rural area of Mentone and located a human skull, without teeth and mandible.
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While numerous exhibits were tested forensically over the years, a confirmed match to a suspect could not be made. Last year, the RCMP forensic laboratory re-examined the exhibits and a male DNA profile was generated.
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Cecilia Ashe, at the time Inspector of Operations in the Wilmington Police Department, knew her city had already been labeled “Murder Town, USA.”
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Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one another.
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The study found that 85% of cartridge cases that were judged inconclusive by forensic firearm examiners were actually fired by two different guns.
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Human remains found near Granger, Wyoming in 1982 have been identified as belonging to a man who disappeared in 1981 while traveling back to his home in Missouri after visiting family in California.
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The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office brought the case to the DNA Doe Project as part of a collaboration with Ramapo College of New Jersey’s new Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center, an undergraduate certificate program offering practical experience on real cases to its students.
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The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the "Trumpington Cross") has been reconstructed following analysis of her skull.
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Enhanced human verification techniques and practices will always be required to ensure accuracy and ward off inherent biases.
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