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Forensics: Unidentified remains. Mexico finds 17 bodies buried in backyards, patios
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 www.live5news.com/2022/03/14/mexico-finds-17-bodies-buried-backyards-patios/
Forensics: Utterly stupid and biased. Virginia lawmakers vote to roll back open records reform. Cops keep control of conviction records.
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 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-roll-back-open-records-reform/2022/03/12/68ba698e-a254-11ec-9438-255709b6cddc_story.html
Forensics: Genealogical DNA again. Little Miss Nobody: After 62 years, girl identified in 1960 Arizona cold case
The Othran DNA lab is doing impressive work.
62 years later, Yavapai County investigators can finally give “Little Miss Nobody” her name back.
— Read on www.fox10phoenix.com/news/little-miss-nobody-after-62-years-girl-identified-in-1960-arizona-cold-case
Posted in AAFS, DNA profiling, Forensic Science, human identification
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Forensics: What is an expert and what to do about it.
A good read about how Daubert expert evidence rules have been misapplied by 100 of judges. New Rule 702 might help.
Forensics: How a Bogus Bite Mark Sent Charles McCrory to Prison for Murder
Decades of bitemarker tragedies. This “famed” dentist doesn’t like me much. Boo hoo.
A famed forensic dentist recanted his testimony against Charles McCrory. He may die in prison anyway.
— Read on theintercept.com/2022/03/12/bite-mark-evidence-charles-mccrory/
Fforensics: Genealogical DNA. After 20 years, Tortoise Reserve Doe (2001) is Identified
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Teams with Othram to Identify Tortoise Reserve Doe
— Read on dnasolves.com/articles/LVMPD_richard_wayne_guarro/
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Forensics: Woman whose rape DNA led to her arrest to sue San Francisco
The woman whose DNA from a sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime plans to sue the city
— Read on abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/woman-rape-dna-led-arrest-sue-san-francisco-83377423
Forensics: Genealogical DNA helps solve 1995 cold case in Kitsap County
Othram labs helped Kitsap County detectives identify the suspect in the 1995 killing of 61-year-old Patricia Lorraine Barnes.
— Read on www.king5.com/article/news/crime/dna-1995-cold-case-homicide-kitsap-county/281-2a180bd2-66e0-4000-bd06-7d566848e651
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Forensics: DNA from bite marks leads to arrest in 1994 killing of California woman.
I knew this was possible in 1996. Genealogical DNA references became possible decades later. The ABFO bitemarkers still proclaim their brand of “identification science” using bruises on skin. I heard this crap at the AAFS2022 conference.
Sharron Gadlin, 48, of Glendale, has been charged in connection with the April 1994 fatal stabbing of Cheri Huss, the Riverside County DA’s office said.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dna-bite-marks-leads-arrest-1994-killing-california-woman-da-says-rcna19271
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, DNA profiling, forensic science reform
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