A thorough investigation was conducted and investigators were able to determine that the deceased’s vehicle, a credit card and other effects had been stolen and used between May 15 and May 17, 1982, seemingly confirming the date of the murder.
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How do plants respond to decomposition, and can we see it with sensors?
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Renay Lynch's exoneration comes after post-conviction re-examination of crime scene fingerprint evidence, which law enforcement had previously withheld from the defense, pointed to another tenant of the victim as an alternative suspect.
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A team of engineers from Columbia University and the University at Buffalo, SUNY say they have built and trained an AI that has proven not every fingerprint is unique.
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Recent advances in DNA technology have allowed cold case investigators to come the closest they’ve ever been to identifying the only remaining unidentified victim of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, known as the “Happy Face Killer.”
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Investigators have announced a significant breakthrough in three unsolved homicides that occurred in the late 1980s in Isle of Wight County and the City of Hampton (Virginia).
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During the altercation, both the victim and Rodriquez were cut with the knife, and Rodriquez left a drop of blood in the home prior to fleeing.
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Recognizing the limitations faced by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Mulroy emphasized the urgent need for a local crime lab tailored to Memphis' unique requirements.
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Researchers involved in the study analyzed DNA from the bones and teeth of 5,000 ancient humans, held in museum collections across Europe and Western Asia.
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Two separate research projects have each been awarded half a million dollars in defense funding to advance memory forensics, which is a frontier field in digital investigations to recover elusive evidence of criminal activity.
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