After 42 years, members of the Pennsylvania State Police, utilizing DNA testing and genealogy methods, identified the victim, Edwin Rodriguez, and accused, Nestor Quintanal, in a 1980 homicide cold case.
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In an unusual move, law enforcement in Florida released the name and image of a 10-year-old boy who was arrested over the weekend and charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting.
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The severity of the injuries made it challenging to initially determine biological sex or other details about the home fire victim that might identify him.
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Forty years after her murder, a Michigan State Police detective began going through boxes of cold case files. He made the innovative decision to partner with the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University to develop a new Cold Case Unit.
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A human rights activist and a group of anthropologists and human biologists are casting a critical lens on the way that microbiome research is conducted with Indigenous peoples.
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Even as automated and new techniques have shortened the processing time for DNA samples from months to days, laboratories are struggling to keep pace with the vastly increased demand.
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Through FDLE's partnership with Parabon NanoLabs and the FDLE genetic genealogy team, an investigative lead was developed in 2021 that pointed detectives toward Alan Lefferts as the suspect.
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The rapid development of new information and communication technologies, and their inevitable integration into our critical infrastructure, brings with it the possibility of digital attacks and other new challenges that we must be ready to face.
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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced the release of eleven years’ worth of data on criminal cases that have been diverted from the traditional criminal justice process.
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Othram and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office have identified a 1974 teen homicide victim that investigators think could have been murdered by serial killer Gerard John Schaefer, also known as the “Killer Cop.”
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