A new study found that the average rate of assaults with firearms increased an average of 9.5 percent relative to forecasted trends in the first 10 years after 34 states relaxed restrictions on civilians carrying concealed firearms in public.
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Many universities, organizations, police departments and others are celebrating and acknowledging the hard work forensic professionals put into their jobs, especially given the mental toll working with crime investigations can have on an individual.
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After more than four decades, and attempts by several DNA testing labs, Ralph Tufano has successfully been identified.
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Researchers reporting a small-scale study have discovered molecular markers for changes to oils over a 7-day time period—information that could be used to estimate fingerprints’ ages more accurately.
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Thanks to technological advances–and with the assistance of BODE Technology–detectives were able identify the male DNA profile collected from the scene in 1991.
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These programs may help to address the devastating drug poisoning overdose crisis in Canada.
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The authors conclude their method can solve a case with a 7,500-person family tree around 94% of the time. The standard method’s success rate in those cases is about 4%.
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Maryland State Police Homicide Unit investigators charged a Florida man in connection with the 2006 murder of a young woman.
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Authorities say newly tested DNA evidence helped them make an arrest in the killings more than eight years ago of a family, including two boys, who were shot in their suburban Houston home.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a retired general and three other members of the army for alleged connection to the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014.
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