An Associated Press analysis based on state data and documents, as well as dozens of interviews with officials and residents, found that Mississippi’s system has long operated in violation of national standards for death investigations, accruing a severe backlog of autopsies and reports.
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Researchers have been working to identify the best and safest methods to decontaminate bases, stations and vessels should they be affected by a large-scale contamination from a pathogen like the anthrax-causing bacterium.
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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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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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