Category Archives: DNA profiling

Forensics: Good example of cross examination of an expert. Mostly irrelevant but lawyers will be lawyers. Tommy Zeigler: Experts give conflicting testimony in hearing

Tommy Zeigler was in court for a scheduled week-long evidentiary hearing to determine if his murder convictions from half a century ago are tossed out. — Read on http://www.wesh.com/article/conflicting-forensic-testimony-tommy-zeigler-hearing/69624527

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Forensics: Incompetence or something else? DNA expert whose methods were flawed was paid $2.79M. Bermuda News

A discredited forensic scientist who analysed DNA evidence for the Crown in hundreds of criminal cases received almost $2.8 million of public funds, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Bermuda Police Se… — Read on http://www.royalgazette.com/crime/news/article/20251202/dna-expert-whose-methods-were-flawed-was-paid-2-79m/

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Forensics: British wrongful conviction. How close are police to finding Diane Sindall’s real killer? BBC

Peter Sullivan served 38 years in jail after he was wrongly convicted of Diane Sindall’s 1986 murder. — Read on http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9p79lxrlzo

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Forensics: Cops hid DNA evidence. Tulsa to pay man wrongfully convicted of rape in 1991 $26.5 million

The Tulsa City Council on Wednesday approved paying $26.25 million to a man who spent more than two decades in prison for a rape he did not commit. — Read on http://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/courts/2025/11/13/tulsa-ok-paying-26-million-william-henry-jamerson-wrongful-conviction-rape/87251052007/

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Forensics: Im jealous. Chico State to Break Ground on New Human Identification Laboratory – Chico State Today

Excellence in research and education. Too bad US forensic dentists have no equivalent. Their specialty is dieing. Rapid DNA testing human remains leads the way. When completed, the new 28,600-square-foot facility will replace the existing laboratory and enable the team … Continue reading

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Forensics: Israeli forensics head discusses identifying slain hostages | The Jerusalem Post

In addition to identifying hostages, Institute of Forensic Medicine Director Dr. Chen Kugel spoke about the moment he found himself identifying the body of Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar. — Read on http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-873165

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Forensics: Polish scientists co-develop tool to tell age from DNA

The process could help police narrow suspect lists in investigations. — Read on tvpworld.com/89798333/polish-researchers-help-develop-dna-forensic-tool

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Forensics: Remains of three bodies returned from Gaza do not belong to hostages, forensic tests

Forensic tests ruled that the three bodies transferred from Gaza by the Red Cross do not belong to Israeli hostages; an Israeli official said Hamas still violates its duty to return the bodies of fallen captives — Read on http://www.ynetnews.com/article/skmkre7ywe

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Forensics: The sensitive forensic teams identifying bodies of Hamas’s hostages

At the Abu Kabir institute in Jaffa, doctors are using their expertise to verify the dead and return them to their Israeli families waiting to mourn — Read on http://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war/article/hamas-hostages-bodies-return-forensic-teams-80dbf7sr6

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

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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