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A top official from the Boston police crime lab admitted Friday that the lab may not be able to follow the state law that requires rape kits to be tested within 30 days.

An effort underway in Baltimore County aims to find survivors of sex assaults from more than four decades ago.

Scott Peterson's new appeal could be short lived if the judge agrees to prosecutors' request to deny new DNA testing for the convicted murderer.

Tapping federal grants allows IRSC to do a $3 million public safety complex expansion, buys area police and deputies gear, public safety equipment.

Aside from missing a jaw, “the skull was in good condition.”

In a Hartford courtroom on Tuesday morning, prosecutors will begin presenting evidence in a case that went cold for years — a double homicide in the city’s North End in 2016. The state will argue its case against Brandon Letman, hoping for a conviction in just one of the many cases in Connecticut that went cold, this one leaving the victim’s loved ones waiting for answers for years. In other ...

Dozens of plastic zip ties, presumably used to bind both victims, and among the various items of tanyas clothing, one item stood out. Scharf they found tanyas pants, which eventually were found to have semen on the pant leg. Narrator they also took swabs from Tanyas Body during her autopsy. And so they kept some of the vaginal swabs, and they retained them, frozen, in the laboratory. Narrator but this was 1987, and Dna Science was in its infancy. In fact, the Firstever Conviction using Dna Evide...

The Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to reverse a circuit court’s ruling could lead to additional DNA testing in the 31-year-old West Memphis Three murder case. Damien Echols’ appeal to the state’s high court stems from his pursuit of exoneration. When three eight-year old boys were killed in 1993 in West Memphis, Echols, Jason […] The post Arkansas Supreme Court reverses West Memphis Three ruling, allows for DNA testing appeared first on Arkansas ...

The State Bureau of investigation is taking the lead on this case while the District Attorney’s office is identifying potential impacted cases.

Kane County recently received $1 million from the federal government to expand its in-house forensic science lab that officials say could one day be a “full-service” regional hub for DNA and drug testing. The lab currently is able to test substances that law enforcement suspects are drugs and blood for the amount of alcohol it contains, according to the two lab directors. Co-Director Timothy ...