The reliability of child witnesses is especially important to understand given the large number of children who become involved in the legal system every year.
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Utilizing the Denver Police Crime Laboratory, a direct DNA comparison identified Groshart as the suspect in the March 2004 sexual assault.
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The investigation included reviewing hundreds of missing persons reports, providing the media with photographs of clothing and jewelry found with the remains, as well as a composite drawing of what the victim may have looked like.
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In a new study, researchers have shown that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs leads to increasingly higher levels of activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain.
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Police in the U.S. deal with more diverse, distressed and aggrieved populations and are involved in more incidents involving firearms, but they average only five months of classroom training—the briefest among 18 countries examined in a Rutgers study.
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As the overdose epidemic rages on, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released information on the increased detection of para-fluorofentanyl, a schedule I illicit fentanyl analog.
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The Pennsylvania State Police announced that human remains discovered in Luzerne County nearly 10 years ago have been identified as those of a Wilkes-Barre teenager who went missing four decades earlier.
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The partnership will develop and deploy forensic DNA testing tools to help reconnect missing and unidentified persons with their families.
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A California serial killer seems to be “on a mission” throughout the fatal shooting of six men and the wounding of one woman dating back to last year.
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Using a range of archaeological and forensic science techniques, experts are now reconstructing the faces of three people who died 700 years ago.
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