Her skeletonized remains were discovered on Driver’s Flat Road in Foresthill, California, and had remained unidentified for over two decades.
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Years after the murder, a partial DNA profile was developed from her clothing. It eliminated the main suspect in the case.
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Staff in the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center successfully delivered a candidate to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s and Arizona Attorney General’s offices.
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Researchers in Amsterdam have adapted a commercial lead testing kit into a method that can detect gunshot residue faster and more sensitively than current analysis.
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An interdisciplinary team comprising of faculty and doctoral students from MSU have found a way to use artificial intelligence to help forensic anthropologists identify individuals faster and more efficiently.
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The lab processed more than 20,000 National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) acquisitions in 2024.
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Mississippi State University and the Mississippi Department of Public Safety have formally agreed to work together on forensic investigations, including recovery of human remains, exhumations, surface scatter and burial recoveries, as well as identification of human skeletal remains.
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Special Victim Unit (SVU) detectives at the Family Justice Center arrested and charged a man with Statutory Rape of a Child last week stemming from a 1999 sexual assault cold case.
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This grant will be used to upgrade cellphone forensic equipment and licensing—vital tools in today’s digital world that help us investigate a wide range of crimes.
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A cross-sectional analysis of firearm injury-related emergency department (ED) visits found that between 2018 and 2023, there was approximately one firearm injury ED visit every 30 minutes in the 10 jurisdictions studied.
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