For the first time in the U.S., evidence derived from next generation sequencing (NGS) has been accepted in a court of law.
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Creech has been convicted of five murders, including three in Idaho, one in California, and one in Oregon. He is a serial killer who is established to have killed an additional six victims, and has admitted to killing upward of 40 people.
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Gene by Gene announced its decision to select Othram as its exclusive partner for forensic genetic genealogy search and analysis.
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Using post-mortem fingerprints, investigators identified Seven as 75-year-old Reba C. Bailey, an Illinois veteran missing since the 1970s.
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A man put to death using nitrogen gas shook and convulsed for minutes on the gurney as Alabama carried out the first-of-its-kind execution that has ignited debate over the humaneness of the method.
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After 35 years, police in Prince Edward Island, Canada have made an arrest in the chilling 1988 murder of a gay man that had the island’s LGBTQ+ community living in fear after the suspect hinted there would be more victims.
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Twenty years ago, defendants attacked DNA by saying a match was just similar to their own. Now, DNA profiling is so sensitive that the challenge has shifted from who to when: "It’s my DNA, but I deposited it a year ago, not yesterday when the crime happened."
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The Illinois State Police (ISP) today unveiled the design for the new Illinois State Police Regional Campus, comprised of the Illinois State Police Forensic Laboratory and Illinois State Police Troop 3 and Zone 1 Headquarters.
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In June 2000, a Winter Park, Florida citizen reported finding a human skull at their Orange County apartment community. A search of the area was conducted, and additional skeletal remains, as well as clothing, were found partially buried.
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Previous studies focused on cocaine use have found that women are more likely than men to develop an addiction, try cocaine at a younger age, use larger amounts of the drug, and suffer from overdose.
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