As we prepare to move into a new year, let’s take a look back at Forensic’s most popular news of the year, while reflecting on how far forensic science has come in the last 12 months.
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Investigators discovered a note when conducting the search warrant on June 13, 1984. The note was found crumbled in a wooden nail keg in the living room beside the couch and stated, “Had to run a quick errand, be right back.”
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Mystery surrounds the circumstances of West’s death. No pictures of West could be found, not even a school picture. Cause of death is undetermined and there was no noted trauma to the remains.
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“How will the technology you are working on today affect society in the years to come?” NIST’s senior researchers weigh in.
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Young men from zip codes with the most firearm violence in Chicago and Philadelphia faced a notably higher risk of firearm-related death than U.S. military personnel deployed to wartime service in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the opposite was true in two other cities.
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The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.
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Though the woman had been deceased for a few days and likely exposed to the elements, investigators were able to determine that the death was a homicide and that the cause of death as strangulation.
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On March 13, 1981, a highway worker found skeletal remains of a man near a culvert along Minnesota Interstate 90 near County Highway 23.
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Due to some similarities between the Jane Doe and Floyd, a close family member of Floyd provided a DNA sample.
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"That STEM focus was very forward thinking of the Richmond FBI Field Office. They understand the role scientists play in their bureau."
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