A new contract to manage the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) was awarded on March 31, 2021 to North Carolina-based Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International.
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The Firearms Examination Unit at the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences should immediately cease casework and a comprehensive evaluation of the competence of all current examiners should be performed, according to an audit.
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A pediatrician and the bioengineer have been working together to develop a system for detecting tell-tale bruising in infants.
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The research team showed that airDNA sampling could successfully detect mole-rat DNA within the animal’s housing and from the room itself. The scientists also found human DNA in the air samples.
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In December 1990, a couple walking on a rural road in Southwest Missouri discovered the decomposed remains of a young woman. She had been hog-tied and dumped next to an abandoned farmhouse.
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Scientists have spent the last few months creating a novel facial reconstruction of a mysterious mummy, now skeletonized, from tomb KV 55 in the Valley of the Kings.
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By using the UK as a case study, the paper reveals the explicit connection between governmental policy announcements and cyber-crime campaigns.
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In the 2+ years since the first bill proposal, Sydnor and Shetty worked with stakeholders in the forensic genetic genealogy industry to re-author a version that would allow law enforcement to do its job while also protecting the public’s constitutional privacy.
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Every day, the red phone rings at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Forensic Anthropology Center. On the other end, a funeral home director, a police officer, or a family member shares some version of the same message: there’s a body here for you.
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A former coroner’s analyst in San Francisco has been charged with stealing methamphetamine collected at death scene investigations, authorities said last week.
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