Forensics: Houston crime lab workers fired: DNA Mavens founders operated side company while employed at Forensic Science Center

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/

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Forensics: Crypto theft. FTX hires forensics team to find customers’ missing billions

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

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Forensics: Mostly Partial Prints and DUI Testing. The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science

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

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Forensics: Biden signs bill into law extending investigation of civil rights era lynching cold cases

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

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Forensics: ‘Torso Killer’ Admits to ’68 Strangling and 4 More Cold-Case Murders

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

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Forensics: War crimes investigation. Dutch forensic team will return to Ukraine in spring

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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Forensics: The influence of ‘infallible’ ballistic matching. Letting the jury decide. Maryland high court considers limiting ballistics evidence used to link guns to shootings

BALTIMORE — A television in Baltimore Circuit Court showed a magnified picture of spent cartridge casings taken through the lens of a microscope. If a juror didn’t look closely, they
— Read on www.union-bulletin.com/content/tncms/live/

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Cold Case Victim Identified Through DNA Testing

Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau Cold Case Squad have solved the mystery of a woman found deceased in 1993 at the base of a cedar tree in …

Cold Case Victim Identified Through DNA Testing
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Forensics: Uvalde Shooting Survivors File $27 Billion Lawsuit Against Cops, School District

Survivors of the Ulvade school shooting claim the school district, law enforcement and first responders didn’t act fast enough during the massacre, and now they’re suing for $27 billion.
— Read on www.tmz.com/2022/12/02/uvalde-school-mass-shooting-survivors-file-lawsuit-suing-27-b-police-authorities/

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#NamUS Case. Testing helps narrow search to ID woman found in NY

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — More than a dozen people have been ruled out as matches to human remains found last fall in northern Chautauqua County. Using NamUs, the
— Read on www.timesobserver.com/news/local-news/2022/12/testing-helps-narrow-search-to-id-woman-found-in-ny/

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