Digital Journal Peru
Cusco – Indigenous leaders and local officials have stopped a plan by the National Geographic Society that would have allowed its geneticists to collect DNA samples from the Q’eros, a remote Peruvian tribe believed to have descended from the first Inca.
Daily Archives: May 24, 2011
Indigenous tribe from Peru stops Nat’l Geographic’s DNA sampling
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Posted in Ancestry
St. Charles County crime lab director named to state commission
St Louis Today
Before television networks filled their schedules with dramas that take viewers into high-tech labs, where all sorts of crimes are neatly solved in an hour, Bryan Hampton kind of stumbled into his career as a forensic scientist.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News
Mexico mass graves of 219 signal major cartel rift
Associated Press
DURANGO, Mexico — The vacant car repair lot hardly looks out of place in a vibrant but gritty part of the northern colonial city of Durango, famous as the set for John Wayne westerns.
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Posted in Missing Persons
Idaho Innocence Project Says Amanda Knox is Not Guilty of Murder
Fox News Idaho
Boise, Idaho — The Idaho Innocence Project is working closely with the case of Amanda Knox the American charged with murder in Italy.
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Posted in Current Cases, Innocence Project
DNA Evidence Said to Tie Ex-I.M.F. Chief to Housekeeper
New York Times
Evidence from the work clothes of a hotel housekeeper matched DNA samples taken from Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund who has been charged with sexually assaulting her, a person briefed on the matter said Monday.
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Posted in Current Cases