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- Trainer tracking. Dirty footprints on a carpet could be a killer piece of evidence. Different makes and styles of trainer have their own tread patterns and the police now have access to databases that reveal whether the attacker was wearing Nike Air Max or Converse All Stars.
- The bullet trick. For years, it was thought impossible to take prints from discarded bullet casings. Traditional fingerprint methods rely on the presence of sweat, which leaves a mark.
- Glass matching. This shattered glass could put a suspect behind bars. If you can prove the tiny fragments of glass found on their sweater match the glass at the crime scene, you’ve got them bang to rights.
- Creature features. Our victim has a bite mark on his leg. It looks fairly fresh, so it could well be linked to the crime. These days criminals – particularly gang members – are using dogs as a weapon because it’s thought to be more and more risky to carry guns or knives (although in this case, they clearly thought a gun was worth the risk).
- No One Sells Murder For Money
- How Could 100 Pakistani Children Die and No One Pay Attention?
- Desperate For A Dowry in India
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If you've watched a handful of true-crime shows, you know how often sexual predators target sex workers. The percentage of sex worker victims has dramatically increased each decade. But did you know how bad it really is? Murder is the second-leading cause of death among sex workers. Many perpetrators get away with it; over two-thirds of sex worker ...
There are vulnerable groups in every country. Who they are mirrors the times and places in which they live. And, of course, there are always predators ready to pounce on those they perceive as weak. Can you imagine a hundred children disappearing without a trace – and no one raising the alarm? It happened in Pakistan. There are currently 2 million ...
If you're from the U.S., it can be hard to fathom what it would be like to think your entire being hinged on whether you could get married and how much your dowry was worth. But that's not true everywhere. And Indian serial killer Mohan Kumar Vivekanand,aka Cyanide Mohan, knew how to take advantage of the situation. To Anitha Mulya, he was Sudhakar...
Desperation is so often the underbelly of vulnerability. There will always be people losing their battles with their inner demons. There will be those born into poverty who can't find their way out and those ostracized because they can't meet their culture's narrow definition of who they should be. It's hard to protect everyone. But we've got to tr...
Aug 26, 2014 · The agony of not knowing who murdered a loved one is well documented - but what impact do unsolved murders have on the police officers trying to catch a killer?
- Document Everything in the Murder Book. As detectives investigating the murder of 11-year-old Alan Brown (Little Boy Lost, ep11) discovered, keeping a detailed record of a homicide investigation is more than just a memory aid.
- Nail Down the Timeline.
- Follow every lead. Keeping an open mind about the causes and possible perpetrators of a crime is essential to an investigator’s success. If Unusual Suspects has taught us anything, it’s that homicides are rarely straightforward, and following every lead – no matter how contrived they seem – is crucial.
- Treat Everything as Evidence. Everything at a crime scene from the victim’s body to the position of the furniture can be considered evidence. Systematically processing the scene can dramatically increase the chances of solving the crime – not just the collection of forensic evidence and fingerprints, but determining what does or doesn’t belong at a scene can be just as useful as DNA or a murder weapon.
Nov 15, 2021 · Annals of Justice. How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer. Genetic genealogists like CeCe Moore are cracking cold cases and transforming policing. As DNA analysis redefines ancestry and...
How to catch a killer with your own DNA. Transcript. Hear from Professor Dennis McNevin and Associate Professor Nathan Scudder about the role forensic genetic genealogy is playing in solving decades old crimes.
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Oct 11, 2018 · Over the past six months a small, publicly available genealogy database has become the go-to source for solving cold-case crimes. The free online tool, called GEDmatch, is an ancestry service that ...
