How does clothing on a decomposing body react to environmental and biological factors? That’s the question forensic experts and entomologists at Murdoch University in Australia set out to answer in their newest study.
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As part of the investigation, officers located the decomposed remains of another person inside a box under the kitchen table, indicated to be the woman's mother.
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Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral population that settled the Americas at least 16,000 years ago and gave rise to all present-day Indigenous peoples.
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Experiments to study how glass behaves in crimes typically take days of work. That is, until a possibility to accelerate the investigation suddenly presented itself in an unlikely way.
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Cornell researchers have shown that data science and artificial intelligence tools can successfully identify when prosecutors question potential jurors differently, in an effort to prevent women and Black people from serving on juries.
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The new method allows examiners to qualify and quantify features and characteristics that are commonly observed during physical fit examinations.
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Thought to be the earliest recorded victim from the Long Island Serial Killer case, skeletal remains of a young woman, murdered in 1996, are now known to belong to 34-year-old Karen Vergata from Manhattan.
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Investigators collected DNA from the school bus steering wheel, gear shift and switches on the bus Martinez drove. Agents say the DNA matched the DNA evidence collected from the sexual assaults in 1988, 1989 and 1991.
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A first-of-its-kind analysis of historical DNA ties tens of thousands of living people to enslaved and free African Americans who labored at an iron forge in Maryland known as Catoctin Furnace soon after the founding of the United States.
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Kentucky’s 2007 lawsuit against Purdue Pharma marked a major turn in the opioid crisis. But a new study finds that the case dissuaded only Purdue’s opioid marketing. Promotion of opioids by competing drug companies actually increased.
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