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In The News

2016-05-11 | Slow crime lab stalls Teton cops
The information to bring the investigation back to the forefront for the Jackson Police Department must come from the Wyoming State Crime Lab. Investigators sent evidence from the scene to the lab shortly after the fire in April 2015. There has been no word since then on when the lab will run tests on that evidence, meaning that police have been waiting for results for more than a year.

2016-05-06 | Disgraced Lab Analyst Was High Almost Daily for 8 Years
Details from one of Massachusetts’ worst crime lab scandals were released from the state Attorney General’s office, and could possibly call tens of thousands of cases into question. Farak admitted to being high almost daily for eight years, using methamphetamines, ketamine, cocaine, LSD and other drugs—and even testified in court while using drugs.

2016-05-04 | Coast crime lab still sits empty one year later
The crime lab in Biloxi still sits empty more than a year after state lawmakers funded the facility. That's because the state can't seem to find a pathologist who wants to take the job in South Mississippi.

2016-05-03 | Humans-Pigs-Rabbits Decomposition Study to Impact Court Cases Worldwide
For years, forensic court cases worldwide have routinely used animal models to estimate time since death, or postmortem interval, of human remains, largely because access to human subjects was not available. The UT study shows that doing so could yield flawed results because decomposition rates, insect activity, and scavenger activity vary greatly between human and nonhuman subjects. The study indicates that human decomposition is much more variable than that of either pigs or rabbits.

2016-05-02 | DNA backlog at Austin police crime lab could slow massive case review
Prosecutors in Travis County have since joined a massive statewide effort to re-evaluate cases affected by the miscalculations. But the Austin Police Department’s crime lab, which will have to recalculate statistics on about half of the 1,297 Travis County cases identified so far, is still validating new software and updating its protocols. Meanwhile, the lab’s backlog of cases awaiting DNA analysis has risen to about 1,300, the most in the past five years.

2016-05-02 | Inside the FBI’s Colossal Fingerprint Factory
Before the FBI went digital, it looked a little more like a giant stock warehouse for Amazon.com. In the 1920s, the bureau was only employing 25 workers to classify around 800,000 print cards, but by 1943, there were more than 20,000 employees sorting through 70 million fingerprints.

2016-05-02 | How child predator was caught by tiny clue in photo he posted online
"Utilizing some technology that hadn't even been released to the public yet we were able to take a look at the bottle and reverse out some of the motion blur," Cole said. They can now see the offender's first name "Stephen," the first two letters of the last name and the first three digits on the prescription order. With that he applies to the pharmacy for the customer details of every person who fits that criteria. It narrows the list down to a man named "Stephen Keating." But that's not all. The offender's fingers are also in the picture and incredibly this crack team manages to pull the fingerprints from the image.

2016-04-28 | US House Unanimously Passed Bill Requiring Warrants for Email
The Email Privacy Act unwinds a President Ronald Reagan-era law that allows authorities to access e-mail and data from service providers without a warrant if the message or data is at least 180 days old. The 1986 e-mail privacy law, adopted when CompuServe was king, considered cloud-stored e-mail and other documents older than six months to be abandoned and ripe for the taking

2016-04-28 | Secondary DNA Transfers Questioned in Cold Case Murder Trial
But defense attorney Gina Capuano cross-examined the DNA analyst. Her questioning this week at trial indicated that the DNA could conceivably have come from secondary transfer – from spit in a highly-trafficked area, for instance – that was found on Hanible’s sneaker heel. The mixture reportedly came from as many as three people, at least one male.

2016-04-27 | DNA-Mixture Analysis Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Man in Indiana
The first trial for Pinkins and Roosevelt Glenn in 1990 had ended in a mistrial, due to DNA evidence that excluded them as contributors to the genetic mixture. But at a second trial, they were convicted based mostly off of serological evidence – blood types and other biomarkers, according to Greg Hampikian, a professor of biology and criminal justice administration at Boise State University, who works with the Idaho Innocence Project.