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Forensic mystery: Oklahoma lab determining if purse is linked to notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde Barrow.
UCO’s W. Roger Webb Forensic Science Institute has teamed up with the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum to tackle a mystery involving one of the nation’s most notorious outlaws. — Read on kfor.com/news/local/forensic-mystery-oklahoma-lab-determining-if-purse-is-linked-to-notorious-outlaw/
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Forensics: Lawyer for wrongfully convicted Earl Washington Jr. sues Virginia for withholding lab records
An attorney for Earl Washington Jr., who came within days of being executed in Virginia for a murder he didn’t commit, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against a https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/lawyer-for-wrongfully-convicted-earl-washington-jr-sues-virginia-for-withholding-lab-records/article_9437c8b7-5d4a-52f5-9139-dac8db37cef0.html
Forensics: Despite OK denying reparations: Remains of 1921 Tulsa Massacre to be identified at DNA lab.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – It was a story from her great-aunt that stayed with Jeanetta Williams. Williams, the head of the NAACP, Salt Lake branch grew up in Oklahoma and her great-aunt was a child in 1921. Back then, … Continue reading
Forensics: Based on his testimony in George Floyd’s autopsy. Review of cases under former Maryland medical examiner expected to get underway this year – The Washington Post
The probe was sparked by former chief medical examiner David Fowler’s testimony in defense of the Minneapolis police officer on trial for murder in the death of George Floyd. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/02/maryland-medical-examiner-cases-review/
Forensics: Opinion | Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated – The Washington Post
Bitemark stories from my casebook. The number of experts who can claim to have sent two innocent men to death row is pretty small. Michael West did it in a week. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/sherwood-brown-exonerated-michael-west/
California Innocence Project: The man who helps people on death row – BBC News
American Justin Brooks, who is partly based in the UK, has freed people from death row. — Read on http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-57173868
Forensics: Amazing UFO-derived machines? Sensitive up to 75 miles? Forensic investigators develop tools they say can find bodies | wbir.com
News release from the Outer-Limits Forensic Institute. Available now on Ebay. Art Bohanan, a forensic investigator who created the device, gave it a simple name: The Human Remains Locator. — Read on http://www.wbir.com/article/tech/forensic-investigators-develop-tools-they-say-can-find-bodies/51-d509bd82-f821-41c2-93c0-019c5e64fc8f
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Forensics: Little Rock’s Reformist Black Police Chief Faces the Old Guard
Little different than independent crime lab directors getting hosed by their higher ups. Keith Humphrey was brought in to reform a department riven by race. His opponents accused him of bias and sexual improprieties. — Read on theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/
Forensics: A national disaster: Mexican government says it can’t identify 52,000 corpses due to ‘forensic crisis’ | Daily Mail Online
As many as 31,000 of the 52,000 bodies that have not been identified by Mexican forensic units were recovered from mass graves between 2006 and 2019, and linked to the country’s war with cartels. — Read on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10347737/Mexican-government-says-identify-52-000-corpses-forensic-crisis.html
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Forensics: Ventura County deputy gets jail for tossing drug test
Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, will serve a year in jail after pleading guilty to throwing away a drug test proving a woman innocent, California prosecutors said. — Read on http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article256717752.html
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