The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in collaboration with the Park County Sheriff’s Office and the Park County Coroner’s Office, is making a renewed and expanded appeal for public assistance in identifying a man whose remains were discovered last year.
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Within forensic anthropology in the U.S., there remains no unifying standardization for analyzing cases or writing reports that can be used independent of work environment, education or case circumstance, which may compromise forensic anthropological expertise in courtroom testimony.
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Fueled by $8 million grant, new PEARL lab to train future leaders, expand high-quality learning in prisons, and generate first-of-its-kind national data on incarcerated students.
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Until last week, Duncan was the only known person still on death row as a result of the flawed testimony of Hayne and West.
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Obtaining a viable DNA profile from paper bags nearly four decades old is exceptionally rare and underscores the extraordinary value of meticulous evidence preservation and periodic forensic reevaluation.
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After 35 years, the remains of a woman discovered near a creek in Canadian County, Oklahoma have been identified as Joann Marie Rozelle.
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Students in The University of Texas at Arlington’s Criminology and Criminal Justice Department have helped Arlington Police Department detectives break a 34-year-old homicide cold case.
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“People who work in the lab don’t know how [evidence] gets there in the first place, what happens at the scene before it gets to them. People who process the crime scenes and tag evidence don’t know what happens when it gets [to the lab]."
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Forensic scientists have tapped into the power of silicon to create a handheld detector that can rapidly register trace amounts of fentanyl in a suspected sample to give first responders a better idea of what they are dealing with when responding to a scene.
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When her DNA results came through, however, it was clear that all of the unidentified woman’s matches were very distantly related to her.
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