After initially announcing on Friday they would cease to manage NamUs, the UNT Health Science Center's UNT Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) has backtracked. On the evening of Tuesday, Dec. 8, UNTCHI accepted the $4.2 million award to continue to manage the missing persons program.
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Next time you find a strand of hair at a crime scene, pray the suspect doesn’t like the color of his or her natural hair.
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James's fiancé, Key Meh, was seven months pregnant with their third daughter when he was killed. They met in school and had been together since, with plans to tie the knot in December.
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Scientists analyzed human and animal blood using a technique where they scraped dried blood samples onto a crystal and scanned them with infrared light.
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Police who investigate online crimes against children, and protect wider society from seeing images of violence against young people, are themselves at risk of moral injury and other psychological harms.
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The latest edition of FARO Zone represents a significant software advancement that empowers public safety professionals with even more tools to diagram, document, share and analyze forensic scenes.
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Two forensic experts from Italy and the UK have collaborated to develop a first-of-its-kind technique that enables quick and accurate characterization of illegal pharmaceuticals and other products. At the same time, they have developed an approach to better share this information across forensic laboratories at a global level.
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A $100,000 federal grant will assist a law enforcement education program at Jacksonville State University.
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Human remains discovered on May 23, 2009 by officials in Washington State have now been positively identified as James Neufeld, who disappeared in January 2009, last seen leaving his home in Penticton, British Columbia.
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"First thing we get when we're born is our name," Detective Stuart Somershoe said. "That should be the one thing you get to keep when you die, and she doesn't have that."
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