Category Archives: AAFS

Forensics: This jerk Alabama AG was a favorite DA of the #AAFS bitemarkers. Now he’s a Trumper.

Posted on March 24, 2022 by csidds

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/alabama-attorney-general-steve-marshall-biden-president_n_623c96f3e4b0f1e82c54e20b

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Forensicsy Mubai Report Nails Youth Who Bit Minor Girl

Posted on March 23, 2022 by csidds

Bitemarkism alive and well in the subcontinent. A special POCSO court that convicted and sentenced a 22-year-old youth to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing a 17-year-old gir — Read on timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/odontologists-report-nails-youth-who-bit-minor-girl/articleshow/90384750.cms

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Forensic DNA: When the Question is Not Who, But How

Posted on March 23, 2022 by csidds

Examining courtroom testimony using the framework of Evett et al’s hierarchy for propositions. — Read on promega.foleon.com/theishireport/the-ishi-report-february-2022/when-the-question-is-not-who-but-how/

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Forensics: and police in the same building. Critics Say Broward County’s New Forensic Science Center Is a Conflict of Interest

Posted on March 19, 2022 by csidds

Critics say housing the Broward County Sheriff’s Office Crime Laboratory and the Broward County Office of Medical Examiner and Trauma Services in the planned Broward County Forensic Science Center could lead to conflicts of interest — particularly when investigations involve deaths … Continue reading →

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Forensics: Geneaology DNA evidence leads investigators to suspect in 30-year-old cold case

Posted on March 19, 2022 by csidds

Nona Stamey Cobb was found dead in North Carolina on July 7, 1992. — Read on http://www.wdsu.com/article/dna-evidence-leads-north-carolina-investigators-suspect-30-year-old-cold-case/39468491

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Forensics: Dowsing for dollars. Can “Witching” Find Bodies? Police Training Alarms Experts. | The Marshall Project

Posted on March 17, 2022 by csidds

At the National Forensic Academy, crime scene investigators learn to dowse for the dead, though it’s not backed by science. — Read on http://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/03/17/witching-dowsing-buried-bodies-police

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Forensics. Missing 4 year old from 1960 Identified.

Posted on March 16, 2022 by csidds

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/sharon-lee-gallegos-little-miss-nobody_n_62311c5be4b020d1596cee26

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Forensics: How Genealogical DNA works.

Posted on March 15, 2022 by csidds

dnasolves.com/articles/yavapai_county_little_miss_sharon/

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Forensics: Unidentified remains. Mexico finds 17 bodies buried in backyards, patios

Posted on March 15, 2022 by csidds

Volunteer searchers in northern Mexico led authorities to a series of grisly finds: 17 bodies or skeletal remains buried in the backyards and patios of houses in a low-income housing development. — Read on http://www.live5news.com/2022/03/14/mexico-finds-17-bodies-buried-backyards-patios/

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Forensics: Utterly stupid and biased. Virginia lawmakers vote to roll back open records reform. Cops keep control of conviction records.

Posted on March 14, 2022 by csidds

Virginia lawmakers have passed a measure that would undo a recent reform intended to expand public access to certain law enforcement files in closed criminal investigations — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-roll-back-open-records-reform/2022/03/12/68ba698e-a254-11ec-9438-255709b6cddc_story.html

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