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Monthly Archives: May 2023
Forensics: Arizona Investigating Multi-Million Dollar Medicaid Scheme Targeting Native Americans
More than 100 Arizona healthcare providers are under investigation for insurance fraud that targeted Native Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. — Read on nativenewsonline.net/health/arizona-investigating-multi-million-dollar-medicaid-scheme-targeting-native-americans
Forensics: When skull measurements considered ethnic superiority. Anténor Firmin challenged anthropology’s racist roots 150 years ago
In The Equality of the Human Races, Haitian scholar Anténor Firmin showed that science did not support division among the races. — Read on http://www.sciencenews.org/article/antenor-firmin-anthropology-racism-haiti
Forensics: The Death Row Case of Ray Krone, the Beginning of the End of Bite Mark Evidence in the United States
Full article: The Death Row Case of Ray Krone, the Beginning of the End of Bite Mark Evidence in the United States — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19424396.2023.2210330
Forensics: passing the $$. Montana’s pay for wrongful convictions will end if governor’s veto stands
Cody Marble, the only person so far to file a claim under the program, said he was not surprised with the disconnect between the Gov. Greg Gianforte and the Legislature. — Read on helenair.com/content/tncms/live/
#NamUS case: Blamed on Bundy: COLD podcast challenges popular theory in Nancy Baird cold case
The unsolved 1975 disappearance of Nancy Baird from East Layton, Utah has long been attributed to serial killer Ted Bundy. KSL’S COLD podcast gained exclusive access to case files that point toward other more probable suspects. — Read on ksltv.com/550243/blamed-on-bundy-cold-podcast-challenges-popular-theory-in-nancy-baird-cold-case/
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Forensics: Bitemarkers Beware. The Good and Bad Legacies of Forensic Odontology
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/19424396.2023.2210331
Forensics: Utter BS. Forensic Odontology Response to the NIST Report and CIFS
This is what the American Academy of Forensic Sciences certifies as a valid and reliable discipline for human identification. Of course, the obstinate bitemarker group claims it’s “new improvements” sanctify their continuing to deceice the criminal justice system. Forensic Odontology … Continue reading
Forensics: Total breakdown. DC’s top prosecutor says lack of testing from shuttered crime lab to blame for some dropped cases
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to bring charges in more than two-thirds of arrests made by D.C. police in 2022 — Read on wtop.com/dc/2023/05/dcs-top-prosecutor-says-lack-of-testing-from-shuttered-crime-lab-to-blame-for-some-dropped-cases/
Forensics: Canine width of Bite marks on man prove death-row bear is innocent, say activists
The killing of a jogger in the Italian Alps by a brown bear has turned into a murder mystery after an animal rights group claimed that authorities had captured — Read on http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bite-marks-on-man-prove-death-row-bear-is-innocent-say-activists-z5hbjfktk
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Forensics: #NamUS stats from FL. Body of Missing College Student Found In Submerged Car
Divers located Nick Diaz Ruiz’s body inside a submerged car in a retention pond in southwest Miami-Dade at about 6:15 p.m. on Monday night. — Read on http://www.newsweek.com/body-missing-college-student-found-submerged-car-1799215
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