The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Coroner Division has released newly updated images in hope to identify a John Doe found in Trabuco Canyon nearly 24 years ago.
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Sixteen-year-old Fawn Cox was killed in the bedroom of her home at 9th and Van Brunt while the rest of the family slept on July 26, 1989. Someone climbed up and broke into her window, sexually assaulted her and killed her.
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An Edmonds man on trial for the 1972 killing of a 20-year-old woman killed himself just before a jury convicted him of murder, police said.
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Researchers examined Philadelphia's urban trauma center, finding evidence that shows penetrating injuries reaching historically high levels during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In both ethical and scientific respects, Roma population groups are treated inappropriately in DNA databases and in genetic studies – potentially with consequences for investigations that draw on forensic genetic databases.
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Learning what really happened to these animals and bringing justice to possible animal abusers is a focus of Adam Stern. Two new programs Stern started this past year aim to do just that.
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A Connecticut man has been arrested in connection with four armed sexual assaults dating to 1984 thanks to information from a genealogy database, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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Demand for forensic software remains high due to the role it plays in helping solve crimes and excluding individuals wrongly associated as the source of crime scene evidence.
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To better understand how responses to the COVID 19 outbreak affected crime patterns, Borrion and colleagues drew on resilience theory, which considers the ability of systems to adapt and survive in the face of perturbations.
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What do a 17-year-old cold case strangulation, a 25-year-old murder and a 4-day crime spree have in common? These cases, in addition to about 250 others, were all solved by Texas investigators this year thanks to the enactment of the Krystal Jean Baker Act in September 2019.
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