Experience suggests PG software will continue to be improved, with creation of a continuum that completes the full workflow from analysis to interpretation and database matching the next logical step.
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With Melissa Lucio’s execution put on indefinite hold by a Texas appeals court, her attorneys will now be focused on trying to convince a judge to recommend she get a new trial.
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DNA identified the body as Daniel Muniz Jr. after his stepdaughter, Amanda Galleher of Tennessee, found photos of the tattoos in a national database of missing and unidentified people.
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When Kendall Gehring was in eighth grade, she went on a school field trip to Historic Jamestowne, where she was fascinated to learn about the remains of Jane, a 14-year-old girl who died between 1609 and 1610 and whose bones held evidence of cannibalism.
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It’s a cognitive-behavioral approach based on a unified model of human development, behavior change and psychological growth.
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In recognition of the end of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, let’s take a look at some recent sexual assault news and investigations.
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The Cold Case Unit of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and the Lincoln County Coroners’ Office teamed with the Anthropology Program of Southeast Missouri State University to identify human remains through DNA analysis.
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Three-dimensional laser scanning, a type of geospatial technology, has the potential to become a powerful tool in the crime scene documentation tool kit.
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This approach will allow a team to pinpoint the exact number of individuals in a comingled mass grave and sort them out individually based on bone metabolism.
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Although not inherently illegal, an unintended consequence of this model is that it affords sex predators, rapists, sex traffickers, and other criminal elements the technological means to profit from their crimes while remaining less visible to law enforcement.
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