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US news
fromBoston.com
1 day ago

New DNA testing confirms serial killer Ted Bundy killed a Utah teen in 1974

New DNA testing confirmed Ted Bundy killed 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime in 1974, linking him to another unsolved murder.
California
fromABC7 San Francisco
2 days ago

DNA on cigarette links suspect to 'brutal' San Rafael homicide cold case, solving 1966 murder

A 60-year-old homicide case was solved using DNA evidence from cigarette butts, identifying James Switzer as the suspect in Marjorie Rudolph's murder.
SF parents
fromHigh Country News
3 days ago

A DNA archive critical to identifying missing migrants has itself gone missing - High Country News

Colibrí Center's missing-persons database has become inaccessible, leaving families without hope for identifying missing migrants.
SOMA, SF
fromSan Jose Inside
3 days ago

DA Hires Stanford Grad to Run County Crime Lab

Sandra Burnham Sachs is the new chief of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Crime Lab, succeeding Dr. Ian Fitch.
History
fromMail Online
3 days ago

Shroud of Turin mystery as scientists find DNA from 'multiple people'

New analysis of the Shroud of Turin reveals DNA from multiple sources, including humans, animals, plants, and fungi.
Media industry
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 days ago

Mystery surrounds paternity of child whose mother had sex with identical twins

Current DNA testing cannot determine the biological father between identical twins, leaving parental responsibility unresolved in a legal case.
DC food
fromTruthout
5 days ago

How Maryland's Medical Examiner Helped Conceal Suspicious Deaths

Dr. David Fowler's controversial rulings on deaths in police custody have sparked significant media scrutiny and debate over his use of the excited delirium theory.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 days ago

DNA found on asthma inhaler and cigarette helps convict teenager in man's death

Ali Abdul Basit was convicted of murder using DNA evidence from a cigarette butt after fleeing to Pakistan post-attack.
SF parents
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Human remains found on California beach in 2022 identified as missing man

Human remains found in California in 2022 were identified as Walter Karl Kinney, a banker who disappeared in 1999.
OMG science
fromNature
1 week ago

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins

Ancient DNA can be recovered from sediments, revolutionizing the study of extinct species and the history of ecosystems.
fromLos Angeles Times
4 days ago

Human remains found on a Bay Area beach in 1999 and 2023 have been identified

Human remains found on Bay Area beaches in 1999 and 2023 have been identified as those of Walter Karl Kinney, a banker who disappeared in 1999. The remains were discovered by a family searching for sea shells in 2022, leading to an investigation that linked the remains to Kinney's family through DNA analysis.
California
Parenting
fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

My Husband's DNA Test Triggered a Series of Unfortunate Events. Somehow, His Mom Blames Him.

Benny's mother-in-law blames him for her marriage's end, but support should focus on the father-in-law who is hurt by the betrayal.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Dog digs up possible link to notorious 19th-century Devon murder case

A dog in Devon unearthed a bottle linked to a Victorian murder case involving Mary Ann Ashford, who was convicted of poisoning her husband.
fromNature
1 week ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction is ultimately unsustainable for mice, and potentially other mammals, too. The clones looked normal and lived as long as normal mice. But large mutations - including the loss of an entire chromosome - accumulated in the cloned lineage at an unusually high rate.
OMG science
Business intelligence
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

AI tools offer 'near-real-time' analysis of data from seized mobile phones and computers | Computer Weekly

Cellebrite's AI-powered Guardian Investigate platform enables police to rapidly analyze mobile device data, discover connections between datasets, track phone locations over time, and construct event timelines for major crime investigations.
Privacy professionals
fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

The Dumbest Criminals Keep Asking AI How to Get Away with Murder

ChatGPT provided advice to an accused murderer on handling a dead body instead of contacting police, raising serious concerns about AI safety and misuse.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 weeks ago

AI techniques speed up forensic analysis of crucial crime scene larvae

A maggot's age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. Combing through these fly larvae, investigators can potentially learn when and where a crime happened, whether the body has been moved or whether toxins were involved. For example, blowflies are among the earliest insect colonizers of corpses; they typically sniff out and lay eggs on a dead body within minutes to hours.
Roam Research
fromThe Washington Post
2 weeks ago

He died a convicted murderer. Can a DNA test clear his name?

Every state now has a legal avenue where people can request DNA testing of evidence after being convicted. But in many cases, it's not clear if those statutes apply once convicts have died, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at Duke University.
US news
Science
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Daily briefing: How DNA testing can tell identical twins apart

Advanced forensic techniques including whole-genome sequencing and epigenetic analysis can differentiate between identical twins in criminal investigations, while GLP-1 drugs show potential in reducing addiction across multiple substances, and researchers have successfully synthesized hexagonal diamond.
Medicine
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Identical twins on trial: can DNA testing tell them apart?

Identical twins share identical DNA, making standard forensic DNA testing unable to distinguish which twin committed a crime, though whole-genome sequencing can identify rare post-birth mutations to differentiate them.
EU data protection
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Met DNA database missing nearly half of officers

The Metropolitan Police lacks DNA records for 46% of officers and fingerprint records for 20%, potentially compromising their ability to identify contamination at crime scenes and investigate internal misconduct.
fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

ChatGPT is evidence in murder trial of ex-NFL, Ohio State star Darron Lee: 'What do I do?'

Don't know what to do right now. Fiancee did her crazy thing again, and now she's messed up, I wake up and she has two swollen eyes (i didn't do anything, self inflicted). She stabbed herself, slit her eye? Idk but she isn't waking up or responding, what do I do?
US news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I clicked on a button and everything changed': how a DNA test turned my life upside-down

It was another detail that the rest of the family apparently knew but had never told me; they thought I already knew. The biology mattered less to me than the secret. Dad had been adopted, it turned out. A classic affliction of the 1950s, in which young, unmarried couples were forced to give away their newborn babies.
Books
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Almost half of officers' DNA still missing from Met Police database

Nearly half of Metropolitan Police officers' DNA and over a fifth of their fingerprints are missing from elimination databases, potentially hindering criminal investigations and internal misconduct detection.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

Martschenko's argument is largely that genetic research and data have almost always been used thus far as a justification to further entrench extant social inequalities. But we know the solutions to many of the injustices in our world-trying to lift people out of poverty, for example-and we certainly don't need more genetic research to implement them. Trejo's point is largely that more information is generally better than less.
Science
#genetic-genealogy
fromFortune
1 month ago
US news

Desperate federal investigators weigh using DNA genealogy websites for Nancy Guthrie case | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
US news

Desperate federal investigators weigh using DNA genealogy websites for Nancy Guthrie case | Fortune

Science
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

How a recent shift in DNA sleuthing might help investigators in the Nancy Guthrie case

Investigators are using forensic investigative genetic genealogy and additional DNA methods to find a suspect and locate 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie after CODIS returned no matches.
#cold-case
US news
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Genealogical sites have helped solve major crimes. Police in Nancy Guthrie's case might turn to them

Investigators may use DNA genealogy databases to match DNA from Nancy Guthrie's case and potentially identify suspects or relatives when CODIS yields no matches.
#digital-forensics
Miscellaneous
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

'Cold blooded' murder was well planned, court told

Four men are accused of planning the 2020 Telford assassination of rapper Tamba Momodu (Teerose); three deny murder, one pleaded guilty to arson.
Law
fromAxios
2 months ago

AI is reshaping police detective work, starting with cold cases

AI tools enable detectives to rapidly search and analyze large, multimodal evidence (calls, interviews, photos, social media) to accelerate cold and active investigations.
World news
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Jeffrey Epstein's assistant ordered so many DNA kits, the company asked why

Jeffrey Epstein's assistant ordered 30 23andMe DNA kits for Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem to distribute to co-workers, triggering a company inquiry and expedited shipment to Dubai.
#brooklyn
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Renee Good's family shares independent autopsy results, says DOJ is withholding evidence

The 37-year-old poet and mother-of-three was killed by an ICE officer January 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota during what Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called "targeted operations" near East 34th Street and Portland Avenue. Noem alleged that "rioters began blocking ICE officers," claiming that Good "weaponized" her vehicle by attempting to run over agents. Noem labeled Good's actions as "domestic terrorism" and those of the officers as "self defense," but multiple eyewitness accounts and video footage from the incident contradict this.
US politics
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Gardai investigating murder of Kerry farmer Mike Gaine hope for breakthrough from US DNA experts

Gardaí investigating the murder of Michael Gaine on his farm in Co Kerry almost a year ago are putting "enormous effort" into solving the crime, with hopes pinned on crime scene analysis by US forensic experts returning positive leads.
Miscellaneous
Law
fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

Married man pleads guilty to possession of AI-generated child sex abuse material

Man pleaded guilty to AI-generated sexual images and anime videos of teenagers; remanded on bail pending probation report and will receive a non-custodial conviction.
Medicine
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

Why Autopsies Are in Decline and Why it Matters

Autopsy rates in U.S. hospitals fell from about 50% in the 1950s to single digits today, diminishing crucial medical knowledge and closure for families.
Law
fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

When Evidence Can Be Deepfaked, How Do Courts Decide What's Real? | The Walrus

Advances in AI deepfakes will erode trust in photographic and audio evidence, undermining legal practice unless evidence laws and forensic methods adapt.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Scientists Find Extinct Rhino DNA in Mummified Wolf Puppy's Stomach

Woolly rhinoceros genome was sequenced from tissue in a mummified Pleistocene wolf pup, showing genetically healthy, stable population around 14,400 years ago.
US news
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

More human remains found in Oakland

Dismembered lower limbs were found in Oakland's Fruitvale; authorities are testing to determine identity, cause of death, and links to earlier remains discovered Feb. 1.
California
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Decades-old Bay Area rape cases linked through DNA to Texas man

Lashay Durisseau, a Texas man, was identified by DNA and linked to seven cold rapes and kidnappings across multiple jurisdictions between 1994 and 2008.
#leonardo-da-vinci
California
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

After DUI arrest, man charged with murder relating to Calif. cold case

A suspect was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 Kern County cold-case homicide of Thomas Charles Horton following a 2025 DUI arrest.
fromBoston.com
2 months ago

Genealogists release image in attempt to identify child's skull found in N.H. store in the 1990s

Investigative genetic genealogists are asking for the public's help to identify a child whose skull was seized from a Seabrook, N.H., business more than 30 years ago. The DNA Doe Project, a California-based nonprofit that builds DNA profiles from unidentified human remains, released a new facial reconstruction on Monday. The group also announced that the skull - believed to belong to a girl between the ages of 7 and 9 - has ancestral roots on the Greek island of Chios.
US news
US news
fromFortune
1 month ago

FBI says DNA recovered from glove found near Guthrie home appears to match glove worn by suspect | Fortune

Glove DNA found two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home appears to match gloves worn by a masked person seen the night she vanished.
#grave-robbery
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