The Narcan van made its debut last week as Zoe Freedom Center volunteers met in Fredericksburg and canvassed the downtown area, passing out goodie bags and materials about the center’s free services, including counseling and peer support groups.
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Neuroscientists have discovered a new way: they have found that people’s brains can detect AI-generated fake faces, even though people could not report which faces were real and which were fake.
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On the 40th anniversary of the finding of Princess Doe, investigators announced the identity of Princess Doe as 17-year-old Dawn Olanick. They also charged Arthur Kinlaw with 1st degree murder in her homicide.
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In the world of examiners, evidence of violent crimes, or crimes against children, offer visceral and painful images and messages that can be very hard to shake if we don’t take care of our mental health on an ongoing basis.\
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In 2019, a NCMEC Forensic Artist completed a new facial reconstruction rendering that received media coverage and drew public interest back to the case.
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A Bay Area tech company CEO was arrested last Saturday at JFK airport in New York after arriving from Amsterdam, and charged with the strangulation murder of his roommate’s girlfriend in Mountain View 30 years ago.
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In addition to keeping city residents safer where they live, work, and play, a new analysis of data from Chicago shows that as violent crime decreases, so does the area’s death rate from heart disease.
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Track-Kit provides victim survivors with 24/7, online access to information about the status of their sexual assault kit. The goal of the Track-Kit system is to increase accountability and transparency for what can be a lengthy process.
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M-Vac technology has helped cold case detectives in Montgomery County, Texas solve their oldest homicide case—the 1979 abduction, rape and murder of 12-year-old Lesia Michell Jackson.
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced his office’s DNA forensic genetic genealogy program has now helped solve three cold cases, including one with multiple victims.
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