The Houston Police Officers Union is pushing to have the leader of the Forensic Science Center removed due to a backlog in testing evidence.
— Read on www.fox26houston.com/news/houston-police-officers-union-calling-for-resignation-of-forensic-science-center-president
Connecticut forensic scientist Henry Lee denies he fabricated evidence in a 1985 New Milford murder case that sent two men to prison for decades.
— Read on www.newstimes.com/news/article/henry-lee-shawn-henning-ralph-birch-evidence-18257395.php
David Zandstra, 83, of Marietta, Georgia, has been arrested in the disappearance and killing of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington.
— Read on www.newsweek.com/cold-case-breakthrough-retired-pastor-charged-girls-1975-murder-1815058
Kirk Bloodsworth, Thirty Years After His Exoneration
— Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources/podcasts/discussions-with-dpic/kirk-bloodsworth-thirty-years-after-his-exoneration
Mary Bush can speak to the media on the validity of bite mark analysis as evidence in criminal investigations, and on methods to identify victims using dental records and DNA evidence.
— Read on www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2023/07/bitemark-evidence-mary-bush.html
WARREN — The bite mark evidence presented during the 1986 trial of Danny Lee Hill was again disputed by the convicted murderer’s legal counsel during a hear
— Read on www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2023/07/bite-mark-evidence-disputed-yet-again/
Henry Lee, a famed forensic scientist who has worked on numerous cases and appeared often as an expert in court, fabricated evidence in a 1989 trial that sent Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning to jail for killing Everett Carr, according to a ruling Friday. A judge vacated the felony murder convictions in 2020, and…
— Read on boingboing.net/2023/07/22/forensic-scientist-fabricated-evidence-that-sent-men-to-jail-says-judge.html
Much like the bitemark believers who hold sway in the #AAFS hierarchy. They substitute data for a word salad of their “science ”
As scholars and investigators of conspiracy theory communities have noted, people who cling to these ideas long after they have been demonstrated to be factually false tend to do so for two reasons. One, because the conspiracy theory links them to a community of supportive, like-minded “others” among whom they feel a deep sense of…
— Read on thefamiliarstrange.com/2022/11/21/victorian-pseudoscience/
The case illuminates a tactic called “surreptitious DNA collection” that is showing to be more of a common technique used in cold cases.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/20/police-are-using-surreptitious-dna-collection-to-solve-cold-murder-cases/70427941007/
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