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In The News

2017-04-03 | Partial Palm Print Leads to Arrest in Unsolved 2011 Double Murder
Investigators had a key clue in the 2011 South Carolina killings of a mother and her 3-year-old daughter — a partial palm print in the girl’s blood. But it took six years of advances in crime solving technology to finally match that print to a suspect in the cold-case killings. Columbia police flew across the county to arrest Kenneth Canzater Jr. near his home in Perris, California, and charge him with murder, Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said Thursday.

2017-03-31 | Leading DNA scientist sacked, 27 criminal convictions in doubt, WA Attorney-General says
Mr Quigley said Mr Webb was sacked in August 2016 following an investigations by Path West, but the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) was not informed of the sacking until two days before Christmas. Mr Quigley, who became the state's Attorney-General two weeks ago, said he was only told on Monday this week. He described Mr Webb's sacking as a disaster that would have serious consequences. "This is as serious as it gets in the administration of criminal justice," he said.

2017-03-24 | Forensic errors trigger reviews of D.C. crime lab ballistics unit, prosecutors say
District crime lab officials are reviewing more than 150 firearm examinations for accuracy after the lab discovered errors by three D.C. forensic analysts who incorrectly matched bullets or shell casings recovered at crime scenes to individual weapons. The examinations date to at least August 2015, according to federal prosecutors in Washington and the three former ballistics examiners.

2017-03-23 | Fingerprints Move Over Months—Could They Be Aged?
Latent fingerprints have been the most consistent biometric identifier at crime scenes for a century, pre-dating the “gold standard” of DNA. But fingerprints are not set in stone—and can move miniscule distances weeks after they are left on certain surfaces, according to a new study in Forensic Science International. Although the new dynamic wrinkle to the trace evidence doesn’t appear to limit its identifying power, it could account for some of the matches that are not made in investigations, or through systems such as AFIS. But the potential to “age” fingerprints does exist in the future, contends the team, from Abertay University in Scotland.

2017-03-20 | Charges to be dropped against three after state forensics department loses evidence
Two Anniston men and an Oxford woman will have drug charges against them dropped after a state forensics lab lost evidence needed to prosecute them, officials said Friday. Calhoun County District Attorney Brian McVeigh received a letter by email from the Department of Forensic Sciences Director Michael Sparks on March 10 stating the evidence was missing.

2017-03-17 | Local Police Department Becomes First in U.S. to Use Rapid DNA Testing
This time, a lab isn't needed, dropping the cost of the project to $150,000. The box, called IntegenX RapidHIT ID, allows police to rapidly analyze DNA collected from inside a potential suspect's mouth to see if it matches DNA taken from crime scenes that Bensalem and 38 other police departments in the county are storing at the Bode Cellmark Forensics lab in Lorton, Virginia.

2017-03-16 | Harris County Officially Opens New State Of The Art Institute Of Forensic Sciences
Doctor Dwayne Wolf, deputy chief medical examiner at the HCIFS, explains that “about 11,000 deaths are reported to our office every year, of which we bring in 5,000 bodies for examination, either for autopsy or external examination.”

2017-03-05 | New fingerprint searches in unsolved cases can solve violent crimes
Entering old prints has helped solve cases elsewhere too. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, as part of a cold case project, were able to identify more than 150 prints from crime scenes, including the print of a man later arrested in 2014 for the rape and killing of Amber Creek, a 14-year-old who ran away from a Chicago shelter in 1997 and was found strangled in a remote area of Wisconsin.

2017-02-27 | Orlando fingerprint examiner suspended, 2,600 cases possibly affected in latest police lab scandal
A fingerprint examiner for the Orange County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office, who worked more than 2,600 cases dating to 2001, has been removed from duty for reasons that aren’t totally clear. After prosecutors discovered that he was no longer working fingerprints, they also found that he’d been removed five months earlier and that the sheriff’s office hadn’t notified them.

2017-02-19 | Hundreds of criminals have cases reviewed after forensic lab 'manipulation'
Police are reviewing nearly 500 criminal cases after a forensic lab used by forces across the UK discovered "data manipulation" at their Manchester site. Two men aged 47 and 31, who had worked for Randox Testing Services for three years, have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Some 484 cases handled by the lab will now be reviewed in an effort to determine whether compromised data played a part in prosecution.