A group of specialists are assessing forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) as an investigative tool after recently completing a world-first graduate certificate in FGG in the United States.
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In the first two weeks of October alone, the Houston Forensic Science Center’s 39-member crime scene unit (CSU) has responded to 27 homicides, and 24 other scenes, for a total of 1,171 scenes this year.
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New York real estate heir Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more than two decades ago.
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Human remains found near a tank battery in 2019 in Gardendale, Texas have been identified as Timothy Daniel Gomez.
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If you haven’t struggled to locate freezer-based evidence in order to meet a processing or reporting deadline, raise your hand. Anyone…?
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The University of Colorado Boulder Police Department’s property and evidence unit is the first university police department in North America to earn the SCS Northwest Evidence Management Professional Accreditation certificate, a process that took about two years to complete.
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Blue previously classified Petito’s death as a homicide, but had not disclosed how she was killed pending further autopsy results.
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ShotSpotter filed a defamation complaint in the Superior Court of Delaware against VICE Media alleging defamatory and demonstrably false claims about the company.
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In letters written from child- and victim-organizations, executives and members express concerns with proposed changes to who is required to register as a sex offender and who has access to that information, as well as weakened sex trafficking and reduced maximum sentences for offenders.
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A UK forensic science expert and entrepreneur has launched a ground-breaking app that quietly captures legally admissible forensic evidence of abuse to support police investigations.
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