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Burden of Proof: Exposing hidden crimes
A new exhibition reveals how photography has been used to investigate acts of violence, including Stalinist purges and 21st-Century drone strikes.
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Can DNA Evidence Solve a 30-Year-Old Crime?
San Diego police believe DNA evidence has finally enabled them to solve the case of a 14-year-old girl who was gruesomely murdered in 1984. But what if the evidence is wrong?
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Amanda Knox acquitted because of 'stunning flaws' in investigation
Italy’s highest court acquitted Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of the 2007 murder of the British university student Meredith Kercher, because there were “stunning flaws” in the investigation that led to their convictions, according to judges’ legal reasoning. A panel of judges at the court of cassation in Rome found that the state’s case against the pair, who were definitively cleared of murder in March, lacked enough evidence to prove their wrongdoing beyond...
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Study suggests method for predicting men who may kill their spouses
The psychological and forensic profile of men who murder their intimate partners varies from murderers who kill people they don’t know, a study published online Friday in the Journal of Forensic Sciences suggests.
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Skeletons Of Napoleon’s Soldiers Discovered In Mass Grave Show Signs Of Starvation
When a mass grave was uncovered in Vilnius, Lithuania, archaeologists found the skeletal remains of Napoleon’s Grand Army and were surprised by what the bones told them. By Kristina Killgrove.
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Thai Scapegoats...
The provincial court in Koh Samui has given defence lawyers for two Myanmar workers accused of murdering two British tourists on Koh Tao access to evidence for DNA testing, a defence attorney said Friday.
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The boys who could see England
Last winter, two bodies in identical wetsuits were found in Norway and the Netherlands. Police in three countries failed to identify them — and then the trail led to Calais. By Anders Fjellberg.
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Forensic test pins down ‘time of death’
Forensic researchers develop a new method for establishing an accurate time of death after as much as 10 days.
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The Surprisingly Imperfect Science of DNA Testing
Years later, none of it — not 84-year-old Eleonora Knoernschild’s bloody body on the shag carpet, not the torn bedspread twisted around her neck, not the junk heaped on her corpse so abundantly that only her left foot poked out, not three decades of detective work — none of it would matter as much as the cheese wrapper.
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The strange expertise of burglars
How do you break into a house without breaking a sweat? David Robson delves into the “flow state” of professional robbers – and finds how to beat them.
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The strange expertise of burglars
How do you break into a house without breaking a sweat? David Robson delves into the “flow state” of professional robbers – and finds how to beat them.
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Subway Implements New Security System That Sprays DNA on Robbers
In the new, maybe-gross system, authorities shine black light on possible criminals, looking for DNA traces. Subway is rolling out a new security system to protect its tens of thousands of franchisees across the country, according to WATE. The Intruder Security System, produced by company SelectDNA, has been implemented in a Knoxville, Tenn. Subway store, the first of many planned installations by the Connecticut-based sandwich shop.
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Pseudoscience in the Witness Box
The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science. By Dahlia Lithwick
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Hong Kong Is Using DNA Analysis to Publicly Shame Litterbugs
Litterbugs beware: the DNA evidence you leave behind is now your new worst enemy. An environmental campaign called The Face of Litter is attacking Hong Kong's trash epidemic with some old fashioned public shame, taking DNA evidence left behind on old garbage to recreate digital portraits of litterers. We've seen this kind of technology in action before, when Heather Dewey-Hagborg used DNA phenotyping—which lets artists make an educated guess about what a face might look like...
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Forensic science: The soil sleuth
Forensic geologist Lorna Dawson has pioneered methods to help convict criminals using the dirt from their shoes.
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Forensic scientist gives Dan Aykroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka skull bottle a reconstructed face
If you thought the most unnerving thing about Crystal Head Vodka was the many PR opportunities it affords for Dan Aykroyd to threaten Ghostbusters 3, along comes forensic scientist Nigel Cockerton, who has taken it upon himself to give the brand’s distinctive skull bottle a face. Applying facial reconstruction and buzz-ruining techniques, Cockerton was able to reveal what the skull would look like with skin and muscle made of clay...
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FBI admits forensic evidence errors in hundreds of cases
he FBI has admitted "errors" in evidence provided by its forensics laboratory to US courts to help secure convictions, including in death penalty cases, over more than 20 years. A report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) noted "irregularities" in the hair analysis unit. More detail on the cases affected is expected later from campaign groups.
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FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades
Forensic hair matches were overstated in many cases heard before 2000, including those of 32 defendants sentenced to death, the FBI and the Justice Department acknowledged after a review.
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US to exhume remains of Pearl Harbor dead for identification
The remains of nearly 400 US servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor are to be exhumed so they may be identified and buried individually.
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One Detective's Quest to Identify A Serial Killer's Lost Victims
Thirty-five years after Chicago’s infamous “killer clown” was convicted for murdering 33 men, eight of John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained unidentified. Jason Moran, Cook County’s one-man cold case unit, has made it his mission to find those names, exposing what has been called our criminal justice system’s “silent mass disaster.”
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