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In The News

2017-08-18 | True ID of ‘Chameleon’ Killer Revealed: Terry Peder Rasmussen
Rasmussen, as of this identification, is believed to have killed at least six people females: the four Allenstown victims, Denise Beaudin, and Eunsoon Jun. But authorities acknowledge more victims may be out there among the unidentified bodies and unknown graves of America.

2017-08-18 | Whalen files innocence petition, new evidence cited
The importance of the palm print cannot be overstated, according to the petition filed by Slosar with the University of Chicago’s Exoneration Project. The opinion of Illinois State Police lab scientist John Dierker that the bloody print on the broken pool cue matched Don Whalen was crucial to the state's case. "The jury was told this palm print was everything," said Slosar. Documents given to Whalen’s former defense lawyer by the state in 2007 and recently discovered by Slosar indicate that Dierker called former Bloomington police Detective Randy McKinley on April 30, 1991, and told him the palm print was inconclusive.

2017-08-17 | Scientists Automate Key Step in Forensic Fingerprint Analysis
But scientists have been working to reduce the opportunities for human error. This week, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Michigan State University report that they have developed an algorithm that automates a key step in the fingerprint analysis process. Their research has been published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

2017-08-11 | South Carolina Man Who Shot Cop, Caught on Glasses Camera, Sentenced to 35 Years
A small town South Carolina cop responded to a report of a suspicious person on New Year’s Day 2016 when the suspicious person turned on him and shot him multiple times. But Officer Quincy Smith of the Estill Police Department survived the four bullet wounds—and the glasses equipped with a camera he was wearing at the time have now resulted in a lengthy prison term for his attacker, 29-year-old Malcolm Antwan Orr.

2017-08-11 | Illinois Murder Case Challenges Longstanding Ballistic Tests
More than two decades later, technological advances have eroded confidence in ballistic experts, and the analyst who testified against Pursley is no longer so sure of his findings. Now Pursley is awaiting a new trial, and the case could become the first in which a database used to help put countless criminals behind bars sets someone free. The issue could also pave a new path for other convicts to challenge convictions. “I knew that this could exonerate me because there would be no bias. It would just be a computer algorithm saying it is or it isn’t,” said Pursley, who was convicted in 1994.

2017-08-10 | DNA Experts Present First Exoneration Based on False Y-STR Inclusion
“It could have come from all three defendants (including Suspect 3), or from just two defendants (not Suspect 3), because all of Suspect 3’s alleles are found in the combination of the other two defendants,” they write. “In fact, Suspect 3 is the only one of the three suspects whose alleles can be completely removed from the interpretation, leaving all the mixture’s alleles explained by the remaining two suspects.” A further look at 23 loci available after the trial found that Suspect 3 was actually excluded through the additional data, according to the report.

2017-08-09 | NIJ Report Outlines Best Practices for Sexual Assault Investigations, Rape Kit Processing
A multidisciplinary, victim-centered approach and standardized, efficient evidence processing in sexual assault cases are the focus of a new report by the National Institute of Justice. The report, National Best Practices for Sexual Assault Kits, released Tuesday, outlines 35 suggestions for laboratories and law enforcement to improve their sexual assault investigations, tackling issues such as evidence collection, storage and maintenance; backlog tracking and processing; victim advocacy and notification; and sensitivity to trauma in sexual assault victims.

2017-08-07 | Justice Dept. Revives Effort Looking at Forensic Evidence
Taking the commission's place will be a "forensic science working group" whose top mission will be setting uniform standards for testimony, with input from defense attorneys, academic and forensic scientists and other stakeholders, Rosenstein planned to announce Monday. Its leader will be Ted Hunt, a longtime prosecutor from Missouri whose online biography says he has worked on more than 100 felony trials, most of which have involved DNA or other forensic evidence. He was also involved with the National Commission on Forensic Science, the group Sessions allowed to expire. A new group with an in-house adviser had been anticipated, but Rosenstein said it will seek feedback from outside experts, after critics were concerned it would be too insular.

2017-08-03 | Kansas City police seeing increase in property crime
As officers searched for evidence inside her town home, they found fingerprints. That gave her hope her case might be solved quickly, but lost that hope after what detectives told her. "It would take two years to get the fingerprints back to identify whose fingerprints they picked up. I thought that was very alarming. The two-year mark from the break-in came and went.

2017-08-03 | Holtzclaw Case: DNA Experts Ask Public to Weigh in on DNA Evidence
A group of a half-dozen DNA experts now contend on his behalf that the evidence in one of the key samples is troubling—and may be grounds for overturning the verdict, they argue in a new public letter. “During Mr. Holtzclaw’s trial, the DNA analyst drew conclusions that were inconsistent with her reported results and which may have been outside the realm of her expertise,” the experts write. “In addition, important information regarding the DNA results from the fly area of Mr. Holtzclaw’s pants was not fully disclosed during the DNA analyst’s trial testimony.”