At least two clandestine graves holding human remains were found in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, state authorities said earlier this week.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the launch of a new online portal to allow survivors of sexual assault to track the status of their sexual assault evidence kits and the hiring of the state’s first-ever sexual assault evidence outreach coordinator, Dr. Sarai Crain.
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If countries do not work cooperatively on an FIGG framework, the forensic community could end up with a fractured system vulnerable to inadvertent legal missteps.
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Nothing was found to be able to identify the remains or to assist in determining how or why the person had died or how they ended up in the farmer’s field.
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The LVMPD has arrested the suspect in the murder of
25-year-old Sandra DiFelice, who was found dead in her home nearly 42 years ago.
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The coffins, then the remains, will be examined to see if they match reports from 1921 that the victims were males buried in plain caskets.
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They said Hooper was convicted and sentenced on unreliable witness testimony, no physical evidence links him to the crime and an analysis of key fingerprint and DNA evidence was scientifically unavailable at the time of his trial.
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If any kids dressed as vampires come to your door tonight requesting candy, they probably won’t look like the 19th century “vampire” in this reconstruction.
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The victim’s hands were missing, presumably removed by her killer so she could not be identified through fingerprints, and her head was nearly severed from her body.
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The Charleston County Coroner’s Office will work to improve inter-county opioid investigation protocols, faster uploading of data to national stakeholder databases, and more accurate reginal opioid death statistics which will be provided to local, state, and federal agencies that analyze opioid-related mortality rates.
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