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In The News

2014-09-10 | First State-Wide Deployment of DNA Software System at Arizona DPS
“The Arizona rapid DNA system can provide officers with investigative leads faster than ever before. In cases with appropriate samples, officers can perform the rapid DNA analysis and search the database in hopes of obtaining a preliminary identification of a suspect, rather than waiting weeks or months for laboratory results,” says Figarelli.

2014-09-08 | Mass spectrometry in your hand
“The opportunity in mass spectrometers is to bring the analytical power of brick and mortar laboratories into the field,” says MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) Principal Research Scientist Luis Velásquez-García. “We think we could make something the size of a smartphone that does the same analyses as much larger systems without sacrificing performance, and at a fraction of the cost. This will allow us to put mass spectrometry in many places where it can’t be done now.”

2014-09-04 | Proposal has Omaha police, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office sharing more crime lab services but not merging
The plan would consolidate some functions of the Omaha and Douglas County crime labs, but not merge the labs themselves. Mayor Jean Stothert said the deal would give taxpayers better service for their money.

2014-09-03 | Columbia police hired chemist despite warning from sheriff’s experts, Lott says
The Columbia Police Department hired a crime lab chemist in 2011, whose work is now in question, despite being told that she was not qualified, Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday. Brenda Frazier’s job performance has resulted in 746 cases she handled during 21/2 years with the police agency being reviewed by prosecutors and defense lawyers. Police chief Skip Holbrook relieved Frazier of her drug-testing duties on Aug. 22. She resigned three days later, and the department is no longer examining drug evidence.

2014-09-01 | Allegheny County's crime lab ranks up there with world's best
The Allegheny County crime lab can perform crime scene investigations for thousands less than other labs and complete the analysis faster. DNA work, however, takes longer and costs more, according to a study by the Forensic Science Initiative at West Virginia University's College of Business and Economics.

2014-08-29 | Your death microbiome could catch your killer
Understanding how microbes inside a dead body colonise it can help pathologists work out the time of death, where the body has been lying, and how its decomposition could affect the soil and ecology around it. Until now, research in this area has largely focused on the way that insects and microbes from a corpse's environment take up residence in putrefying flesh.

2014-08-28 | FBI readies for NGI system
According to the FBI, the system, which is incrementally replacing the Bureau’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, or IAFIS, will better serve its most frequent customers – law enforcement agencies checking criminal histories and fingerprints, armed forces veterans, government employees, and the FBI’s own laboratory.

2014-08-27 | State-of-the-Art Police Forensic Lab Opens in Illinois
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn was joined by state and local officials to open a new State Police Metro-East Forensic Science Laboratory in Belleville. The facility will provide the Illinois State Police (ISP) and police agencies throughout the region with enhanced crime-solving abilities. The event is part of Governor Quinn’s agenda to ensure the safety of all people in every community across Illinois.

2014-08-26 | Drug analyst resigns; nearly 200 cases may be in jeopardy
Last week, Holbrook closed the department’s drug lab after a departmental review found Frazier wasn’t following standardized procedures required to make sure her drug testing results were accurate. Her determinations for both the weight of tested drugs, and what kind of drugs were being tested, are open to question, law enforcement officials have said.

2014-08-26 | More DNA analysts critical to fight backlog
AUSTIN -- DNA evidence can be critical to solve a crime, but a big backlog of cases means it could be months, or even years, before some of those samples get tested.