Last year, a total of 29 states and Puerto Rico introduced 58 bills aligned with Joyful Heart’s six pillars of legislative reform to count, test, and track rape kits, and grant rights to survivors.
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The program consists of distributing child ID kits to families of first-graders throughout the state through sheriff’s offices and schools. Families can then complete the kits and have them on hand should a child in their care ever go missing.
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After 35 years, police in Prince Edward Island, Canada have made an arrest in the chilling 1988 murder of a gay man that had the island’s LGBTQ+ community living in fear after the suspect hinted there would be more victims.
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Twenty years ago, defendants attacked DNA by saying a match was just similar to their own. Now, DNA profiling is so sensitive that the challenge has shifted from who to when: "It’s my DNA, but I deposited it a year ago, not yesterday when the crime happened."
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The Illinois State Police (ISP) today unveiled the design for the new Illinois State Police Regional Campus, comprised of the Illinois State Police Forensic Laboratory and Illinois State Police Troop 3 and Zone 1 Headquarters.
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In June 2000, a Winter Park, Florida citizen reported finding a human skull at their Orange County apartment community. A search of the area was conducted, and additional skeletal remains, as well as clothing, were found partially buried.
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Previous studies focused on cocaine use have found that women are more likely than men to develop an addiction, try cocaine at a younger age, use larger amounts of the drug, and suffer from overdose.
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For the first time in the U.S., evidence derived from next generation sequencing (NGS) has been accepted in a court of law.
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Creech has been convicted of five murders, including three in Idaho, one in California, and one in Oregon. He is a serial killer who is established to have killed an additional six victims, and has admitted to killing upward of 40 people.
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Gene by Gene announced its decision to select Othram as its exclusive partner for forensic genetic genealogy search and analysis.
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