Forensics: Body with gunshot found in search for Tulsa massacre victims

Posted on November 13, 2022 by csidds

A second body of a possible victim of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has been found to have a gunshot wound, according to the city. “Forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield discovered that one of the three sets of remains exhumed last week contained one victim with a gunshot wound,” according to a statement late Friday from city spokesperson Carson Colvin.
— Read on apnews.com/4f20204dbe6cd54ae2f28d7042820150

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Forensics: Why forensics should be separated from law enforcement control

Posted on November 10, 2022 by csidds

Lecture done recently by Chris Fabricant and Rob Warden. A great narration covering junk science in courts given by “eminence-based” scientists rather than “evidence-based” ones.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?522776-2/junk-science-american-criminal-justice-system

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Forensics: ‘Junk science’: Counterfeit research papers in China, a worrying trend

Posted on November 5, 2022 by csidds

‘Junk science’: Counterfeit research papers in China, a worrying trend – The BL
— Read on m.thebl.com/china/junk-science-counterfeit-research-papers-in-china-a-worrying-trend.html

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Forensics: In Ukraine, a mobile DNA lab helps relatives identify bodies

Posted on November 5, 2022 by csidds

A mobile DNA laboratory was set up this week in Izyum, eastern Ukraine, to spare relatives of the war dead the pain of visually identifying bodies.
— Read on www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221104-in-ukraine-a-mobile-dna-lab-helps-relatives-identify-bodies

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Forensics: investigators bring DR Congo victims closer to justice

Posted on November 4, 2022 by csidds

In 2020, the UN Human Rights Council mandated a Technical Assistance Team to support judicial investigations into serious crimes in the Kasai provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A year later, that mandate was expanded to cover the whole country. We followed that team on one of its visits to a location where a massacre took place.
— Read on www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2022/11/forensic-investigators-bring-dr-congo-victims-closer-justice

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Forensics: Rock ‘n’ molar: Bite marks on Steinway grand piano likely to have been made by Thomas Edison, who used to ‘hear through his teeth’

Posted on November 4, 2022 by csidds

American inventor was known to pick up good vibrations in his skull
— Read on www.musicradar.com/news/thomas-edison-bite-marks-steinway-piano

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Forensics: The history of DAs supporting junk science. A look back in time.

Posted on November 3, 2022 by csidds

csidds.com/2016/12/09/are-we-in-the-twilight-zone-bitemarks-can-now-prove-innocence/

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Forensics: #NamUS and DNA works! Colorado Cold case: Remains of woman found on farm 34 years ago identified

Posted on November 1, 2022 by csidds

A cold case is no longer cold. The remains of a woman that were found on a farm in 1988 have been identified.
— Read on kdvr.com/news/local/remains-of-woman-found-on-farm-34-years-ago-identified/

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Forensics: Men exonerated in Malcolm X killing to receive $36 million – POLITICO

Posted on October 31, 2022 by csidds

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were exonerated last year in the 1965 assassination.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/malcolm-x-killing-exonerated-settlement-00064156

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Forensics: Bitemarks take another hit in 2022. Why Is Bad Science Allowed in the Courtroom? | Psychology Today

Posted on October 31, 2022 by csidds

A new report finds that a well-known forensic technique is unscientific.
— Read on www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202210/why-is-bad-science-allowed-in-the-courtroom

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