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Forensics: Medicine. ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months — Read on popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee
Forensics: Law. Students do the work. Notre Dame exoneration clinic notches third victory in 15 months
The clinic recently made the case that an Indiana man was wrongly convicted of a murder with “stunning similarities” to one committed by a death row inmate. — Read on http://www.courthousenews.com/notre-dame-exoneration-clinic-notches-third-victory-in-15-months/
Forensics: Manual Strangulation. Medical examiner believes ICE detainee death was homicide, recording shows.
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/
Posted in AAFS, Crime, forensic pathology, Forensic Science, human rights violations
Tagged ICE custody deaths
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Forensics: Mass murderer died in 1999. Authorities link 1998 cold case murder to prolific ‘Yogurt Shop Murders’ serial killer
A 1998 cold case in Kentucky has recently been solved, linking the murder to a prolific serial killer. — Read on http://www.fox10tv.com/2026/01/13/authorities-link-1998-cold-case-murder-prolific-yogurt-shop-murders-serial-killer/
Posted in Crime, criminal justice, DNA profiling, Forensic Science
Tagged mass murder
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Forensics: Protesters in Iran. A morgue overflowing with more body bags than answers amid Iran’s latest crackdown on dissent
Iranians screamed in anguish and cried in confusion as they gathered beside bodies shrouded in black bags in a makeshift morgue at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center and lying on the ground outside the facility south of Tehran. — Read … Continue reading
Forensics: Up to 25 years in prison. Former funeral home worker charged with hiding a corpse at the center of a cold case mystery
DNA detective work ID’d her remains. Now, authorities say they know how Alyce C. Peterson’s skull was found in a ravine by Boy Scouts in 2002. — Read on http://www.inforum.com/news/the-vault/former-funeral-home-worker-charged-with-hiding-a-corpse-at-the-center-of-a-cold-case-mystery
Forensics: Ireland. Forensic experts to be paid €4.5m as mother and baby home excavation enters second phase
The bodies of 796 infants are believed to be buried on the site — Read on http://www.westernpeople.ie/forensic-experts-to-be-paid-4-5m-as-mother-and-baby-home-excavation-enters-second-phase_arid-83656.html
Forensics: Investigators sorting through hundreds of bones, body parts after skeletons stolen – YouTube
Cemetary desecration and body theft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB1KMErP59s
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Forensics: Nine times so far. Cops Are Taught Not to Shoot Into Cars. ICE Keeps Doing It Anyway. – Mother Jones
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars. — Read on http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/renee-good-minneapolis-shooting-ice-trump-cops-taught-not-shoot-at-cars/
Forensics: Centuries old. No studies exist for support. Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous
An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of ‘questionable value’ — Read on http://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/119243
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Tagged junk science, medical myth
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