The National Park Service reported human skeletal remains discovered in Lake Mead National Recreational Area Saturday afternoon.
— Read on www.kwqc.com/2022/05/08/human-skeletal-remains-found-las-vegas-lake-one-week-after-body-was-found-barrel/
Thirty years after a fatal fire sent Garrett to prison for life, a judge vacated his conviction, opening the door to his release.
— Read on theintercept.com/2022/05/07/claude-garrett-murder-arson-conviction-overturned/
The crimefighting tool has helped crack cold cases, but it has also raised privacy and racial discrimination concerns.
— Read on www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-court-halts-family-dna-searches-crime-suspects/
After withering criticism and allegations that they have worked to “cover up” shootings involving agents, Border Patrol
— Read on www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050622_critical_incident_teams/border-patrols-forensic-teams-being-eliminated-after-cover-up-allegations/
News4’s Jackie Bensen takes us to the screening made possible by a group of university students. It’s a series of documentaries that re-examine the cases of…
— Read on www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/making-an-exoneree-georgetown-university-documentaries-highlight-wrongful-convictions/3043222/
A Chicago man who was pardoned after spending more than seven years in prison for an armed robbery he didn’t commit has reached a $7.5 million settlement with a northern Indiana city and former police officers
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/national/attorney-pardoned-chicago-man-reaches-75m-settlement/2022/05/04/ebdfbf58-cbd0-11ec-b7ee-74f09d827ca6_story.html
US described as “bitemark crazy.”
I grew up in the golden age of forensic science, at a time when expert witnesses were becoming celebs, each with their special little area of crimebusting…
— Read on www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/how-fact-killed-my-belief-in-forensics/
Charles McCrory has spent decades in prison for the murder of his wife, convicted on the strength of bite mark evidence. The problem? CSI-style forensics is bad science
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/forensics-bite-mark-junk-science-charles-mccrory-chris-fabricant
She calls herself a “child abuse expert.”
Parents and caregivers say their lives were upended after Knox wrongly diagnosed children’s illnesses or accidental injuries as abuse.
https://wnanews.com/2021/12/02/child-abuse-cases-barbara-knox-rejected-wisconsin/
The dawning realization that junk science might have put a vast number of innocent people behind bars has prompted the Innocence Project to widen the net of cases that it takes on.
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2022/04/28/junk-forensic-science-lands-thousands-of-innocents-in-prison/
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