JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Ex-Colorado forensic scientist sentenced to 10 years over manipulated DNA results, other crimes
Over 1,000 criminal cases have been called into question over scientist’s conduct.
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Skeletal remains found in North Carolina woods in 1977 identified as 15-year-old Maryland runaway
Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that […] The post Skeletal remains found in North Carolina woods in 1977 identified as 15-year-old Maryland runaway appeared first on American Almanac .
Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that remains discovered on December 29, 1977, belong to Cindy Marcell Blizzard, a teenager from Monkton, Maryland, who left home in the spring of that year. The SBI is treating her death as a homicide. No arrests have been made, and the cause of death remains unknown. The remains, skeletal by the time they were found, lay in woods near a Firestone tire manufacturing plant in Wilson County, a rural area roughly 60 miles east…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Kohberger's former forensic expert demands defense lawyers testify under oath about hidden hair evidence
Bryan Kohberger's bid to withdraw his guilty plea in the Idaho student murders has triggered a remarkable demand from the forensic scientist who once worked for his own defense, put his former lawyers under oath and make them explain what they knew. Brent Turvey, a forensic expert who traveled to Moscow, Idaho, to examine crime-scene […] The post Kohberger's former forensic expert demands defense lawyers testify under oath about hidden hair evidence appeared first on American Almanac .
Bryan Kohberger's bid to withdraw his guilty plea in the Idaho student murders has triggered a remarkable demand from the forensic scientist who once worked for his own defense, put his former lawyers under oath and make them explain what they knew. Brent Turvey, a forensic expert who traveled to Moscow, Idaho, to examine crime-scene evidence before Kohberger's sentencing, says hair strands recovered from one victim's bed were never DNA-tested, and that the FBI's own lab excluded Kohberger as their source based on physical examination alone. Now Turvey wants Kohberger's former lead attorney, Anne Taylor, and her co-counsel to answer questions in sworn testimony about why that evidence never reached their client in a way he understood…Open
ABCNEWS - Hair found in Nancy Guthrie's home not linked to suspect in abduction: Sheriff
That leaves a mixed sample of DNA retrieved from the home as the only known piece of biological evidence in the case.
YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - He Was 18 When He Solved a 57-Year-Old Child Murder Case | Greta Wire | NEWSMAX
Today on Greta Wire: - Eric Schubert explains how he contacts Pennsylvania State Police at age 18 and offers to investigate the unsolved 1964 abduction, sexual assault and murder of a young girl walking to school in Hazleton. - Schubert analyzes preserved crime-scene DNA, builds roughly 50 to 60 family trees and connects several distant genetic matches to the Forte family. - The investigation narrows to bartender James Paul Forte after Schubert discovers Forte later brutally assaults another woman near the same stripping pits. - DNA from relatives and a preserved hairbrush eliminates Forte’s brother, leading a judge to approve the exhumation that conclusively identifies Forte as the killer. - Schubert’s breakthrough gives the…
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Could a new study help find Nancy Guthrie?
A new Arizona State University study examining how pigs decompose in the desert could hold the key to solving the Nancy Guthrie case. Allison Weiner joins “Pavlich Tonight” to explain what the findings could mean. More: https://www.newsnationnow.com/katie-pavlich-tonight/
DAILYCALLER (Mark Tanos) - Revolutionary War Soldier Identified Nearly 250 Years Later
'A team extracted DNA from a small skull piece'
NYTIMES (Jeré Longman) - Henry C. Lee Dies at 87; Forensic Scientist Testified in Defense of O.J. Simpson
The Times called him “the world’s most highly regarded forensic criminologist,” but later in his career he faced accusations that he had hidden and fabricated evidence.
JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Henry Lee, forensic scientist who testified at O.J. Simpson trial, passes away at 87
Lee passed away peacefully Friday at his home in Henderson following a brief illness, according to a statement from his family and the University of New Haven, where he taught for more than five decades.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Brian Entin) - Lab works to separate DNA in Nancy Guthrie case as search hits Day 41
April Stonehouse, a forensic science professor at Arizona State University, said the flashlight represents "a great source of DNA."