Category Archives: Crime

Forensics: Horrific killings of 4 female teenagers. What to know about the new suspect identified in Texas’ infamous yogurt shop killings

Posted on September 28, 2025 by csidds

Austin police have identified a new suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders of four teenage girls — Read on abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-suspect-identified-texas-infamous-yogurt-shop-killings-126002530

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Forensics: Ridiculous. Massachusetts’ Statute of Limitations for Rape Is One of the Shortest in the Nation

Posted on September 12, 2025 by csidds

State law prevents prosecution of rape suspects after 15 years, even when investigators think new evidence, including DNA, could lead to a conviction. — Read on http://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape

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Forensics: The scam of body donations “for research.” Big bucks $$$.

Posted on August 31, 2025 by csidds

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce83r56xwj7o

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Forensics: Team from NJIT Uses Cellphone Location Data to Help Free Wrongly Accused

Posted on August 20, 2025 by csidds

Forensics Team from NJIT Uses Cellphone Location Data to Help Free Wrongly Accused — Read on news.njit.edu/forensics-team-njit-uses-location-data-help-free-wrongly-accused

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Forensics: Scandal-hit Queensland DNA lab repeats major testing error as rape victims wait over a year for results

Posted on August 4, 2025 by csidds

This all started in 2022. Someone is playing dirty with the evidence in urgent criminal cases. Damning review exposes ongoing issues at Forensic Services Queensland, including failure to properly test sample from violent unresolved crime — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/forensic-services-qld-queensland-dna-lab-ntwnfb

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Forensics: Is this the new norm of the feds fighting crime? DOJ disappears data on Native missing and murdered cases on its website.

Posted on July 15, 2025 by csidds

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/13-democratic-members-of-congress-push-to-restore-report-on-mmip-crisis

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John Grisham: Why is Jimmie “Chris” Duncan on LA death row

Posted on June 23, 2025 by csidds

I helped develop the case against the faked bitemark evidence evidence used to convict Duncan. Jimmie Duncan was convicted in Louisiana almost solely on the wholly fabricated theories of two notorious forensic experts — pathologist Steven Hayne and odontologist Michael … Continue reading →

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Forensics: British CSI case. An elderly man frightened to death. Impressive team.

Posted on March 17, 2025 by csidds
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Indigenous families experience homicides TEN TIMES HiGHER than the general population.

Posted on March 2, 2025 by csidds

https://www.threads.net/@kelseycombe/post/DGs2_LkOyzr?xmt=AQGzF2U0ovQ3PLh4OAPaGsT8u9bmcccTat_6ZbtsQ7ZHBQ

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Forensics: French spousal rapist investigated for more sexual crimes.

Posted on January 31, 2025 by csidds

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gisele-pelicot-dominique-husband-jail-b2689156.html

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