In April 1981, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found off I-80 near Route 30 in New Lenox, Illinois.
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All four men were convicted of Crawford’s murder in 2008, even though no physical evidence connected any of them to the crime and Dement’s “confessions” did not comport with the facts of the crime scene.
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The Department of Homeland Security awarded $999,406 to South Dakota-based small business Synthetik Applied Technologies, LLC to develop a targeted surface interrogation technology that quickly detects trace residues of explosives and illicit drugs on carry-on baggage, laptops and other items.
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual abuse survivors going through the criminal justice system has been "huge" with support services reporting referral increases of up to 366 percent.
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Facial reconstructions of three bodies exhumed last year by forensic anthropologists in Florida will be featured—along with 17 other John and Jane Does—in a month-long museum exhibit called “The Art of Forensics.”
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Police searched the area and put up roadblocks at the time but the teens’ killer wasn’t found. Fingerprints and latent DNA samples from the crime scene were collected, but there were no matches at the time.
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All conventional identification approaches including Short Tandem Repeat (STR) DNA testing at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) were unsuccessful in producing leads to the man’s identity.
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Police in Rochester have launched a website intended to draw new attention to hundreds of unsolved killings in the city.
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One of the biggest challenges for children on the witness stand involves questions pertaining to the sequence of events.
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At ISHI 32, Elena Zavala presented the results of her recent study comparing three common forensic extraction methods to one of the most widely used ancient DNA extraction methods.
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