The UW’s Center for Environmental Forensic Science will work globally to help stop poaching of endangered wildlife species, including elephants.
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Scientists at the University of Southampton have expanded the forensic toolkit to correctly identify drowning as the cause of death of a Neolithic fisherman buried in a mass grave in Chile about 5,000 years ago.
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DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago.
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The cause of death is not confirmed. However, during the autopsy the unidentified man was found to have several injuries that were consistent with being hit by a motor vehicle.
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The nation’s top public health agency proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.
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Hogan presented a Governor’s citation to recognize the late Rose Lanzetta, who in 1972, became the first female forensic chemist hired at the department’s newly opened crime laboratory.
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Paul Dostie, retired Mammoth Lakes Police Department sergeant, is positive he knows not only what happened to Karlie, but that the scat of coyotes dominant in the area prove his theory correct.
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District Attorney Chesa Boudin condemned the practice of using rape and sexual assault victims’ DNA to attempt to subsequently incriminate them.
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In March 1982, a young woman's body was discovered by an off duty Wauwatosa firefighter. The woman was floating between two metal barrels that were tied to a nearby pier in the Milwaukee River.
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USF forensic anthropologists presented their findings of a two-year study commissioned by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners to identify the locations of unmarked cemeteries on county property.
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