If wearables become essential equipment for a broader swath of the population, it stands to reason that law enforcement officers and digital forensic analysts will start finding wearables as they investigate crimes.
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The Wood homicide was considered high risk for FGG, considering that the only DNA sample available consisted of two tubes of dried blood. The original amount of DNA was unknown, and the condition of the sample was shown to be highly degraded,
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The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences plans to open a new state laboratory in southeast Alabama that will conduct testing to help combat opioids and other drugs in the region.
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The California Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court decision in the murder conviction of Alvin Larry Davis, ruling that DNA evidence produced through the use of STRmix forensic software “is generally accepted as reliable by the relevant scientific community.”
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Baptist Health Foundation Hardin’s Board of Directors announced that it will provide $121,000 to keep Baptist Health Hardin’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)/Forensic program fully operational despite first-time reductions in state grant funding.
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Forensic odontologist Line Staun Larsen recently received a grant worth 2 million in Danish Krone—about $300,000 USD—to examine whether 3D data from dental records can make the identification of victims more effective, especially those involved in major or mass disasters.
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Before last week, Indiana was one of only 15 states in the U.S. without an evidence preservation law, leaving the decision on how long to preserve biological evidence completely up to law enforcement agencies, court clerks, hospitals and more.
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The young man's body was found by divers, shortly after the discovery of the Alisha Ann Heinrich, previously known as Mississippi Delta Dawn.
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Researchers developed a novel metric to assess probability that an unknown sample of a drug matches a library sample, with profound implications for standardization of mass spectrometry results.
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In April 2021, special agents and investigators decided to reexamine the physical evidence of the case, including DNA.
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