A professor recently took a closer look at how eyewitness and video perspectives differ in the courtroom.
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Police forces in England say the potential for significant harm to people who go missing is rising after decades of cuts to police budgets, rising demand and lack of training.
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The airport is now getting help from some furry new friends: detector dogs specially trained with protocols created by the Global Forensic and Justice Center at Florida International University.
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The health risks posed by direct exposure to the acrid dust was underestimated at the time, and poorly understood. Appropriate personal protective equipment, such as P100 half-face respirators, was not available at that time.
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With digital intelligence technology combined with investigator smarts, some pieces of evidence that have been tampered with can be detected, after all.
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In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and the ouster of the Afghan national government, alarming reports indicate that the insurgents could potentially access biometric data collected by the U.S. to track Afghans, including people who worked for U.S. and coalition forces.
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The Kalamazoo Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) secured prison time against a habitual offender after he was sentenced in one of three cases currently pending as a result of successful evidence testing.
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An autopsy later determined Noga died from blunt force trauma after being struck with a blunt object. For more than two decades, the case remained open and active.
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Researchers have reconstructed and characterized ancient genomes from skeletal remains buried in a Colonial hospital and chapel, where records suggest victims of epidemics were buried during outbreaks in Mexico City.
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DNA evidence collected from all three crimes pointed to one as yet unknown culprit. Also, fingerprints from the evidence collected at two crime scenes were a match. But the identity of the killer remained a mystery.
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