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Monthly Archives: May 2021
Forensics: Where are the bodies of those killed in the Tulsa race massacre? – The Washington Post
Where are the bodies of those killed in the Tulsa race massacre? – The Washington Post — Read on http://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-tulsa-race-massacre-is-finally-becoming-known-but-where-are-the-bodies/2021/05/28/6080652a-bcbd-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html?outputType=amp
Forensics: Emma Faulds murder: How forensic experts traced soil in the tread of muddy boot to catch killer
Emma Faulds murder: How forensic experts traced soil in the tread of muddy boot to catch killer – The Sunday Post — Read on http://www.sundaypost.com/fp/emma-faulds-murder-soil-forensic/
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Forensics: Error at NYPD lab that went unchecked for 5 years warrants probe
Police say “no harm no foul.” Defense say false drug testing needs an audit. Terri Rosenblatt, the supervising attorney of the New York Legal Aid Society’s DNA unit, said in a statement that they looking closely at the error. — … Continue reading
Forensics: Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada
The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children. — Read on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9630875/Remains-215-children-former-indigenous-school-site-Canada.html
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Tagged genocide and neglect, indigenous child abuse
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Forensics: Indiana University Repatriates 700+ Native American Remains To Angel Mounds | news – Indiana Public Media
Indiana Public Media is your source for news and information, music, arts and community events from WFIU Public Radio and WTIU Public Television — Read on indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-university-repatriates-700+-native-american-remains-to-angel-mounds.php
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Tagged indigenous remains repatriation
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Forensics: Tulsa massacre: The search for victims, 100 years on – BBC News
Great look at the context of the Tulsa race massacre from a Black bio anthro. Awesome. Decades after white mobs razed an affluent black neighbourhood the search for bodies goes on. — Read on http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57244863.amp
Forensics: More ABFO bitemarker damage. Gilbert Lee Poole Jr. Exonerated of Murder After Three Decades. @theNAME1966
Locked up for more than three decades for murder, Gilbert Lee Poole, Jr. had been serving a life sentence since 1989 based largely on a form of forensic evidence once widely used but no longer deemed reliable: bite mark analysis. … Continue reading
Forensics: A note to @theNAME1966 and @The_AAFS
In the US there are only 81 ABFO forensic dentists. Many are retiring or inactive. For @theNAME1966 to require its certified medical examiner offices to ONLY affiliate ABFO dentists is a serious mistake and not supported by past practices in … Continue reading
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Tagged dental identification, forensic dentistry
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Forensics: Latest bitemark wrongful conviction: Eddie Lee Howard
Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom – Eddie Lee Howard https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/podcast/s12e58-wrongful-conviction-with-jason-flom-eddie-lee-howard
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