Beginning this fall in five Michigan regions, the 5-year pilot program will establish a research-to-practice hub to provide guidance, training and consultation in the regions, and also assign intensive support teams to provide case management.
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His attorneys had argued new science raised the possibility Chanthakoummane’s DNA could have been transferred to Walker’s fingernails without any direct contact between the two.
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Verogen CEO Brett Williams discusses the implications of the recently announced Verogen-Gene by Gene partnership and what users can expect to see going forward.
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Initial anthropological analysis suggested an ancestry that contradicted the known ancestry of the missing man and the recovered remains were insufficient to produce an estimation of the man's height, hair color, and other physical traits.
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FIU experts are training local high school teachers to develop cybersecurity lesson plans for their students. The Cybernet Miami Academy is an FIU-led virtual, interactive program about digital forensics.
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For more than two decades, Robin Engel has worked to engage in policing research designed to reduce harm in communities and make police-community encounters safer, promoting best practices through academic-practitioner partnerships.
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On Monday, just over a month later, Ivy found himself in an eerily similar position. While the survivor standing next to him was a different woman, the suspect was the same—Frederick Fitzgerald Gandy.
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Earlier this year, a forensic genetic genealogy investigation started, and the remains were tentatively identified as Kathryn Coffey.
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South Korean police say they believe a possible relative of two children whose bodies were found in suitcases in New Zealand last week is likely in South Korea.
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Los Angeles Innocence Project at Cal State LA will be the first innocence project in the Innocence Network to be attached to a forensic science academic program in the U.S.
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