DNA from a bullet casing recovered from a homicide scene matched a DNA profile that had been mistakenly entered into the database
— Read on www.police1.com/investigations/articles/dna-database-mistake-leads-to-portland-murder-suspect-XVMEh8nDSyt3lGAE/
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 www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-12/a-ukrainian-woman-s-harrowing-quest-to-find-her-family/101757840
In an unusual collaboration, archaeologists in Israel are working with police to analyze prints left on fifth- or sixth-century pottery shards
— Read on www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-fingerprints-tell-us-about-jerusalems-ancient-artisans-180981238/
Four analysts at Houston Forensic Science Center were fired for starting their own consulting company in forensic biology, officials said.
— Read on abc13.com/houston-forensic-science-center-employees-fired-dna-mavens-analysts/12550420/
A team of forensic financial experts has been hired by bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to try to find the billions of dollars worth of missing customer funds.
— Read on cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-hires-forensics-team-to-find-lost-customers-billions-report
When Henry Swofford stepped to the microphone at a gathering of forensic scientists in 2016, he surprised the audience when he announced that he had directed his investigators to no longer use the terms “identification” or “individualization” to link an item of evidence to a specific person. Investigators could no longer say that a latent fingerprint found at a crime scene was an absolute match with a suspect.
— Read on nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/slow-steady-march-towards-more-reliable-forensic-science
Biden has signed a bill into law that would extend the time a panel has to investigate lynching cold cases that took place during the Civil Rights era. | TAG24
— Read on www.tag24.com/politics/us-politics/biden-signs-bill-into-law-extending-investigation-of-lynching-cold-cases-2683343
The serial killings of five women had gone unsolved for decades until a breakthrough in one case tied Richard Cottingham to all five.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/nyregion/torso-killer-richard-cottingham-cold-case.html
The Dutch forensic team, which investigated war crimes in Ukraine, has returned to its homeland but will come to Ukraine again in the spring. — Ukrinform.
— Read on www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3627938-dutch-forensic-team-will-return-to-ukraine-in-spring.html
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