Forensics: Searching for descendants. Tulsa Race Massacre investigators have sequenced DNA from 6 possible victims

The work is part of a years-long effort to get an accurate count of how many people were killed when a white mob decimated the city’s prosperous Greenwood enclave, leaving upward of 300 people dead.
— Read on www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169464890/tulsa-race-massacre-dna-sequencing-mass-graves

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Forensics: Cops Reportedly Arrest Tech Exec for Murder of Cash App’s Bob Lee

Cops have reportedly arrested a man in the stabbing murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, and the alleged suspect is a fellow tech exec.
— Read on www.tmz.com/2023/04/13/cash-app-bob-lee-murder-suspect-arrested-tech-executive/

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Forensics: Absurd science cited by anti-abortion drug TX judge

www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-ruling-study-abortion-changes-you_n_643724ffe4b05765f3803ff8

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Forensics: Florida bill to criminalize filming police actions is yet another anti-Black move

This proposal would make already tense situations worse and allow police to abuse their authority, Francesca Menes writes.
— Read on news.yahoo.com/florida-bill-criminalize-filming-police-223303803.html

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Forensics: Kentucky law mandates shooter’s AR-15 be sold at auction.

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Forensics: More junk forensic odontology from India. Gender determination from bitemarks.

www.editorialmanager.in/index.php/ijofr/article/download/770/958

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Forensics: China Publishes Data Showing Raccoon Dog DNA at Wuhan Market

Scientists from the Chinese C.D.C. confirmed that DNA from raccoon dogs and other animals susceptible to the coronavirus was found at the market in early 2020.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/science/china-virus-origins-racoon-dogs.html

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Forensics: Ukrainian groups learn about DNA use to identify war victims

Ukrainian civil society and rights groups have visited an organization that uses high-tech DNA techniques to identify people who go missing in conflicts and natural disasters
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/06/ukraine-russia-war-missing-people-dna/d65505e4-d476-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html

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Forensics: Its time for the #AAFS to banish the bitemarkers’ junk science. From Max Houck

https://open.substack.com/pub/maxhouck/p/is-silence-support-for-a-toothless?r=j5102&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Forensics: Report about 80 years of child abuse in Baltimore Catholic archdiocese. Statute of limitations on abuse abolished.

www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-rel-church-abuse-maryland_n_642df743e4b001e12d702df3

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