The FBI and Detroit police exhumed more bodies last week in the continuing effort to identify unknown homicide victims buried in "paupers' graves."
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Death in police custody from negligence, forgery, ritualistic and occult crimes, and the Innocence Project are among the topics that will be explored this fall during the University of Rhode Island’s Forensic Science Seminar Series.
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An international team led by researchers at the University of Bonn detected DNA from ambrosia beetles that were trapped in recent tree resin for less than 7 years.
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Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has been named a winner of the 2020 CybersecAsia Awards in the Digital Forensics Services category.
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The European Union police agency says in a new report that cybercriminals are cashing in on the coronavirus crisis by targeting people and companies that are spending more time online due to work-from-home orders.
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Researchers in Peru are proposing a model based on deep convolutional neural networks as an alternative for bruise dating—one that is almost twice as accurate as current methods.
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As part of a lab, students taking an “Intro to Cyber Forensics” class participated in a virtual experience, investigating a mock crime and searching for a “missing person” while learning about cyber forensics.
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New analysis of the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y chromosomes from all living species of the great ape family helps to clarify our understanding of how this enigmatic chromosome evolved.
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Two former officials of Connecticut's largest city pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges stemming from what prosecutors called a corrupt process that led to the police chief's appointment in 2018.
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A new version of STRmix is now available following nearly a year of extensive development and testing.
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