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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Investigations of 17 individuals found in a medieval well suggests they were likely the victims of an anti-Semitic hate crime.
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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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101 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre that saw Black people receive little lawful protection, forensic scientists are asking descendants to submit their DNA to a database that can be accessed by law enforcement officials.
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With no identifying information available, officials from the Coroner’s Office began an exhaustive, years-long process to learn the identity of the individual.
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The Michigan Department of Attorney General’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) has received federal grant dollars for post-conviction DNA testing to aid in its evaluation of more than 1,700 post-conviction claims of innocence.
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