When lawmakers name bills after victims of tragedy–such as Megan’s Law or the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993–public support surges, but this emotional boost may come at the expense of sound policymaking.
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On a cold morning in December 2025, six forensic anthropology students from Western Carolina University entered the woods of Ellerbe Creek with five of their professors and a group of Durham Police Department officials.
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In June 2004, the skeletal remains of an unidentified individual were found by an exterminator in a concrete coal bin in the basement of a house in East Lake, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama.
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For the first time anywhere in the world, DNA forensics has been used to secure a criminal conviction for the illegal killing and trafficking of an individual lion.
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The lab has spent years investigating cat deaths, identifying patterns and building a repository not only of data points, but how best to collect them.
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Parga was 22 years old and pregnant when she was killed by Wilson Chouest, who was convicted of her murder in 2018. Her identification was the product of seven years of genealogy research, making this the toughest case ever solved by the DNA Doe Project.
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For the first time, researchers have used real-time wastewater monitoring to track nitazene compounds in municipal wastewater.
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Forensic science in England and Wales is not working. Not for the police, not for forensic scientists or lawyers and ultimately, it is not working for the public and the criminal justice system.
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The Clermont Police Department announced that human remains located in 2009 have been positively identified as Ernest Joe Manzanares, whose disappearance had remained unresolved for years.
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This marks the final unidentified individual on St. Petersburg Police Department's John/Jane Doe cold case list.
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