Category Archives: human identification

Forensics: Resource challenges impact post-mortems as bodies pile up from murders, accidents | Jamaica

For 400 metres, the sight was pure horror. Chunks of human flesh, mangled, torn and pasted on the asphalt with blood that had gone muddy, littered the St Catherine leg of the North/South Highway. Initial reports were that the victim, … Continue reading

Posted in AAFS, Civil rights, criminal justice, forensic pathology, human identification, missing persons | Leave a comment

Forensics: This story never changes. The official who investigates suspicious deaths in your town may be a doctor — or not

“A coroner doesn’t have to ever have taken a science class in their life,” said Nancy Belcher, chief executive officer of the King County Medical Society, the group that met that day. — Read on http://www.chicagotribune.com/people/health/death-investigations-20221225-nbnylwxifvhwpo5xckruxc2bc4-story.html

Posted in AAFS, Crime lab scandal, criminal justice reform, forensic pathology, human identification, Medical errors | Leave a comment

Forensics: DNA geneaology case needs more funding. Who is Middlesex County John Doe #NamUS is helping.

Connecticut Office of Chief Medical Examiner and Othram Team to Identify 2021 John Doe — Read on dnasolves.com/articles/middlesex-county-john-doe-2021/

Posted in AAFS, criminal justice, DNA profiling, human identification, missing persons | Leave a comment

Forensics: The reasons #NamUS needs more funding in light of new ‘Billy’s Law.’ Hundred of Thousands Missing Persons And Unidentified Cases

namus.nij.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh336/files/media/document/namus-stats-overall-october-2022.pdf

Posted in AAFS, Forensic Science, human identification, missing persons, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Forensics: Ukraine DNA efforts to identify the victims of war. They are overwhelmed. BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63987512

Posted in AAFS, Crime, criminal justice, DNA profiling, genocide, human identification, human rights violations, Identification DVI, US Crime labs | Leave a comment

Forensics: 15,000 Missing Persons in Ukraine. A Ukrainian woman’s harrowing quest to find her family

Nina Melenets buries her son more than seven months after she says he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine. — Read on http://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-12/a-ukrainian-woman-s-harrowing-quest-to-find-her-family/101757840

Posted in AAFS, Crime, DNA profiling, human identification, human rights violations | Leave a comment

Forensics: Canadian Authorities Object to Searching Public Landfill for Murdered Missing Indigenous Women

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/missing-murdered-indigenous-women-winnipeg-landfill_n_639662c0e4b0804966adad1d

Posted in AAFS, Crime, Crime lab scandal, human identification, human rights violations, missing persons | Leave a comment

Forensics: What Fingerprints Tell Us About Jerusalem’s Ancient Artisans

In an unusual collaboration, archaeologists in Israel are working with police to analyze prints left on fifth- or sixth-century pottery shards — Read on http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-fingerprints-tell-us-about-jerusalems-ancient-artisans-180981238/

Posted in AAFS, human identification | Tagged | Leave a comment

#NamUS Case. Testing helps narrow search to ID woman found in NY

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — More than a dozen people have been ruled out as matches to human remains found last fall in northern Chautauqua County. Using NamUs, the — Read on http://www.timesobserver.com/news/local-news/2022/12/testing-helps-narrow-search-to-id-woman-found-in-ny/

Posted in AAFS, Crime, human identification | Leave a comment

Forensics: #NamUS cases. Missing: Highlighting the search for people missing in Colorado

After the nationwide search unfolded for Gabby Petito, there is a renewed effort to find missing people. — Read on kdvr.com/news/local/missing-highlighting-the-search-for-people-missing-in-colorado/

Posted in AAFS, Crime, human identification, missing persons | Leave a comment