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DNA Matters: How to Use the Likelihood Ratio
Forensic scientists can determine a strength of match. This match statistic summarizes in a single number just how strongly a person is connected to DNA evidence. Many courts require such a statistic ...
Neuman was a teenager when she was raped by a stranger in Baltimore in 1983. Her rapist had never been caught, but she had never let go. She called Baltimore police over the years until she found two ...
Valentine became interested in the potential of touch DNA after a 2011 breakthrough case in Utah, when a young woman was violently groped, but the assailant left no bodily fluids that could be tested.
The case—known in popular culture as Babes in the Woods—dates back to 1953, when skeletal remains of two boys were discovered by a groundskeeper near Beaver Lake, in Stanley Park.
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