Operated by the Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation, the STIC serves as the designated state fusion center and is a one-stop resource for law enforcement officers to obtain information related to criminal activity and terrorism.
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Richard Blumenthal announced $120,000 in federal funding for the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven to provide local police with the latest hands-on training for investigating hate crimes and shootings.
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On April 13, 2022—29 years after her murder— the DNA Doe Project (DDP) and cold case detectives at the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department identified the once-unknown woman as Patricia Skiple.
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Following an extensive review and investigation by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Innocence Commission, Joaquin Ciria has been exonerated of being wrongly convicted of killing Felix Bastarrica.
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Bomb technicians’ ability to expect the unexpected and adjust accordingly has created a consistent pipeline of do-it-yourself (DIY) inventions to solve everyday issues they face.
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The Tennessee Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of an inmate facing execution this week who sought to have his case reopened after an unknown person’s DNA was found on one of the murder weapons.
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Ancestry's SideView technology is a first-of-its-kind scientific innovation that separates DNA into parental sides, giving AncestryDNA customers new insights into which side of the family they inherited their genetics from.
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There has been story after story of how DNA found on a murder weapon or at the scene of the crime proves the innocence of an incarcerated person. Those stories typically have a common thread: the guilty verdict hinged on an eyewitness account.
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Officer Jeff Garner was shot on March 3, 2003, after attempting to stop a man who, unknown to Garner, had just robbed a bank in Watauga, Texas.
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An extensive investigation was conducted at the time the remains were found, but the victim remained unidentified, and no suspects were identified.
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