ROME — Divers have spotted human remains near the shipwrecked Costa Concordia off an Italian island, and authorities say DNA tests will determine if they are those of two victims whose bodies were never found.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News, Mass Disaster, Missing Persons
SAN FRANCISCO – Stepping in dog poop is usually just bad luck, but for some criminals it’s a step toward the slammer.
That’s because dog feces pick up DNA-bearing epithelial cells from the colon on their way out. When those feces are found on the shoe of a suspect — one who claims not to have been anywhere near the scene of a crime where matching poop was found — a case may be cracked.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News, New ID Technologies
DNA testing is being done on bones found inside an old submerged car to determine whether they belong to two 17-year-old girls who disappeared in South Dakota in 1971, authorities told FoxNews.com.
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Posted in Cold Cases, Mitochondrial Testing
It was a frosty December morning 18 years ago when Wasatch County Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Bonner arrived at the Provo River crime scene to investigate the murder of Krystal Beslanowitch. He looked at it every which way, but the eventual suspect — a man named Joseph Michael Simpson — was not on his radar.
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Posted in New ID Technologies
MOULTRIE, GA (WALB) – Investigators are able to solve crimes at a much faster rate thanks to a DNA database called Codis.
In Georgia, more than 3,500 cases have now been solved, some dating back nearly 30 years.
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Posted in Backlogs, Database, Forensic Industry News
One of the most tangled sagas in recent memory at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court came to an unexpected end Wednesday, when a judge reversed his own order and sent a convicted rapist, once seemingly exonerated, back to prison for the rest of his life.
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Posted in Current Cases, Forensic Industry News, Innocence Project
Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis on Wednesday to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabaab gunmen who attacked the shopping centre.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News, Mass Disaster, Missing Persons
The U.S. Embassy, Dhaka is pleased to announce that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation will share the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) technology with law enforcement partners in Bangladesh. The initiative demonstrates and reaffirms the United States’ commitment to assist International Law Enforcement Agencies in combating violent crime.
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. (WTVR) – After more than a decade the woman accused of killing and then tossing the bodies of her newborn twins down a trash chute will once again face a judge. During Thursday’s suppression hearing, the court will decide if the evidence against Darnesha Paulita Berry will be allowed at trial.
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Posted in Case Law, DNA Legislation, Forensic Industry News
An INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) has been deployed at the request of Kenyan authorities to provide on-site assistance to the Westgate shopping centre terror attack investigation.
Headed by INTERPOL’s Executive Director of Police Services Jean-Michel Louboutin the team includes Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) and data specialists who will carry out real-time comparisons against INTERPOL’s global databases on DNA and fingerprints and other evidence gathered from the crime scene.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News, Mass Disaster, Missing Persons
About 10,000 years ago, the Neolithic age ushered in one of the most dramatic periods of human cultural and technological transition, where independently, different world populations developed the domestication of plants and animals.
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Posted in Ancient DNA
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