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
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
American inventor was known to pick up good vibrations in his skull
— Read on www.musicradar.com/news/thomas-edison-bite-marks-steinway-piano
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/
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
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
A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars convicted of murder and two attempted murders has been released from a California prison after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different person. The conviction of Maurice Hastings, 69, and a life sentence were overturned during an October 20 court hearing at the request of prosecutors and his lawyers from the Los Angeles Innocence Project at California State University, Los Angeles. “I prayed for many years that this day would come,” Hastings said at a news conference on Friday, adding: “I am not pointing fingers; I am not standing up here a bitter man, but I just want to enjoy my life now while I have it.”
— Read on uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/man-released-california-prison-38-150101988.html
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — According to NamUs, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States each year. Although many missing people are found, others remain missing for more than a year – what many law enforcement agencies consider “cold cases.” Below are active cases of people missing […]
— Read on www.wjhl.com/news/local/doj-these-are-the-active-missing-persons-cold-cases-in-johnson-city/
Adnan Syed’s case caught the nation’s attention thanks to its feature in the popular podcast “Serial,” and led to the once-convicted murderer having his conviction overturned,
— Read on www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/10/28/every_year_around_800m_spent_on_wrongful_convictions_860485.html
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