The Purdue College of Agriculture’s Department of Entomology is partnering with Arizona State University to co-host the inaugural Cold Case Symposium, an in-person and online event that will spotlight America’s cold case crisis.
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National Missing and Unidentified Persons Day may not be for another 5 months, but that isn’t stopping the Richland County Coroner’s Office (S.C.) and Columbia Police Department from getting a head start.
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Through an autopsy, investigators determined that the cause of death was asphyxia due to injury to the neck. The injury was consistent with manual strangulation and therefore the death is suspected to be a homicide.
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Super-recognizers never forget a face. They help police departments and security agencies identify suspects. They also make good private detectives and unofficial investigators.
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While ethanol is often a hidden ingredient in e-liquids, a new study finds vaping won’t trigger a false positive sobriety test– but only if police employ a proper waiting period.
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Experts on bomb investigations, forensic archaeology, and cold case investigations are among the speakers for the fall University of Rhode Island Forensic Science Seminar Series.
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A new study concludes Black or Hispanic individuals are underrepresented in scientific fields closely related to forensic science, even though demographic data is hard to come by or even non-existent.
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A Bronx man has been indicted in the 1996 strangling death of a pregnant woman after his DNA was recently matched to DNA found under the victim’s fingernails.
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In October 2021, the 50th anniversary of Hall’s homicide, detectives from the Cold Case Unit decided to review the case with a fresh set of eyes.
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An Ohio man was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for his 12-year campaign of harassment–via letters and phone calls–against a television actress and her daughter in which he threatened to torture, rape and kill them.
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