A new study found that reducing alcohol hours of sale for bars and taverns in a Baltimore neighborhood also reduced homicides by 51 percent within the first month and by 40 percent annually.
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Wastewater monitoring has revealed a 75% increase in detections of the synthetic stimulant pentylone across Australia, according to researchers at the University of South Australia.
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The individual was found deceased near a railroad overcrossing. Investigators determined that the remains were that of a white male, who was estimated to between fifty and seventy years old at his time of death.
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DNA sequencing technologies have identified the historical remains of George Washington’s grandnephews, Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington, from unmarked, fragmentary bones left at the Harewood family cemetery in Charles Town, West Virginia, in the mid-1800s.
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In 2019, the State finally disclosed that it secretly paid Ellison $5,000 for her testimony, after denying it for 17 years. This revelation prompted three of the jurors who had voted to convict Johnson to call for a new trial.
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The study is the first to document intimate partner homicide-related fractures from a forensic anthropological perspective.
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After 44 years, the remains of a man discovered in an unincorporated area of Ojai in Ventura County, California have been identified.
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Forty years ago, 3-year-old Ramona Brown vanished after a house fire killed two of her siblings and destroyed her family’s home.
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A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains.
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The prestigious award will fund research into the causes, complexities, and potential solutions to gun violence in disproportionately impacted Black and Brown communities.
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A senseless argument that led to the murder of a 34-year-old man in a Pennsylvania diner parking lot has now been solved thanks to facial recognition technology and DNA left on a Styrofoam cup at the crime scene 12 years earlier.
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Implementing this research, officers attended crime scenes and committed to spending an extra 30 minutes at each scene to gather forensic evidence and intelligence, as well as engaging with the community to provide crime prevention messaging.
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The man could not be identified, and his manner of death was listed as undetermined. It was estimated that only weeks had passed between the man’s death and the time that his remains were found.
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For the first time in this case, the National for Missing & Exploited Children has created a new image of Lina Sardar Khil, who vanished from a playground in San Antonio, Texas in 2021.
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A new study of California gun data identifies risk factors for weapons used in crimes.
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