In the state with the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation, testing the backlog of rape kits may not be enough. Many were from cases where the identity of the suspect was already known, or were opened only to find no usable DNA.
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For law enforcement, the days of simply asking suspects for their log-in credentials and collecting data from their phones are long gone, as are the days of easily bypassing a passcode.
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The scientists found two groups of twin pairs, one where twins share mutations and another where the developmental mutations are only present in one of them at high frequency.
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Law enforcement agencies across Alaska, including in the state capital, are failing to collect DNA from people arrested for violent crimes, violating a state law passed with great fanfare in 2007 that was going to put Alaska at the leading edge of solving rape cases.
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In large-scale societies, it’s anonymous—judges have no repercussions. In small-scale societies, the community knows the person, needs them and wants to keep them in the fold.
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A gun found in the pants pocket of a man after he was killed by police in Washington fits the make of the gun likely used to kill a man after a pro-Trump rally in Portland, Oregon, new reports indicate.
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On January 1, 2021, President Donald Trump signed into law the bipartisan Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act, which seeks to help local jurisdictions improve the recording and reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains found along the U.S.-Mexico border—a tragedy that is increasing by the day.
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Kentucky State Police Forensic Laboratories were recently recognized by OSAC for voluntarily adopting rigorous standards in the analysis of seized drugs.
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Over the first weekend of the new year, the body of a baby was found inside the wall of a house being remodeling in South Carolina. That same day, a body was found in the freezer of an abandoned house.
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A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
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