The FBI profiler whose analysis of Kaczynski’s writings led to that high-profile arrest will donate his professional papers about the case to the Pennsylvania Center for Investigative and Forensic Sciences at California University of Pennsylvania.
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Researchers investigated how marijuana affects skills required for safe driving and found that biofluid levels of THC did not correlate with field sobriety test performance or marijuana intoxication, regardless of how the cannabis was ingested.
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Stepfather Brandon Haas and mother Kristie Haas were indicted Monday afternoon on charges including First Degree Child Abuse and Endangering the Welfare of a Child, with the possibility of additional charges.
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The case of a Black man who died following a party in rural Kansas more than 16 years ago has been ruled a homicide after his body was exhumed as federal authorities investigate his death as a possible hate crime.
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Decomposed remains found in a Missouri park have been positively identified as those of a Chinese woman who had been missing from Columbia, Missouri, since 2019, authorities said Tuesday.
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After an audit last week recommended the Firearms Examination Unit at the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences immediately cease casework, the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) temporarily suspended the lab’s accreditation as of April 2, 2021.
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The Houston Forensic Science Center has—for the first time—identified fentanyl in XTC tablets, a significant, potentially deadly, health risk, especially to youth purchasing what they believe to be a “party” drug but instead a toxic opioid.
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Although this accidental drowning has been a focus of the investigation, investigators have not ruled out the possibility that the skeletal remains belonging to victims of a crime.
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She is currently known only as Bones-17. Detectives with the King County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit, and forensic anthropologist Katherine Taylor, need help to determine her true identity.
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The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world’s most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader.
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