Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall knew exactly what to do with the millions of dollars the state will see from its opioid-related settlement—invest it in the forensic labs and scientists who have been on the frontlines of this crisis from the very beginning.
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This unit will aid and support law enforcement agencies across the state in the investigation and prosecution of unsolved cases, including homicides, missing persons, and other matters centered around human identification and forensic genealogy.
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The state of decomposition made it difficult to confirm the man's physical attributes, but pathologists were able to determine that the man was likely an adult male between the ages of 25 and 55, who stood at around 5’10 feet tall.
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Experts had estimated Smith’s IQ from 64 on the low end and 75 on the high end, but courts have ruled he was eligible for the death penalty.
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More than 40 years after its invention, Sanger sequencing remains the gold standard for DNA sequencing.
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Fifteen of the flats have been repurposed to create more practical scenarios for forensic science and criminal investigation students.
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In 1984, Lester Rome from Grand Isle, Louisiana was reported missing to Jefferson Parish authorities.
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Scientific analysis by Cranfield Forensic Institute has proven that a stoneware dish is a 1000-year-old Chinese Song dynasty treasure, the rarest of all Imperial Chinese ceramics.
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Investigators from the Atlanta Police Department traveled to a private lab in Salt Lake City to physically hand over DNA evidence associated with a terrifying 2-year murder spree that resulted in the death of at least 28 people, most of them children.
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An attorney for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed has told a judge that new evidence suggests the 19-year-old woman his client was convicted of killing may instead have been strangled by her jealous boyfriend.
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