Forensics

Vultures Pick Away At Human Corpse For Science

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.30.2012 | Science

Read More: Willed Body Donation Program, Video, San Marcos, Texas State University, Human Body, Forensic Science, Corpse, Vulture, Anthropology, Forensics, Katherine Spradley, Science News

Somewhere in Texas, people are videotaping vultures ravaging a human body. Twisted horror flick? No. Just another day in forensic science. In a pil...

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Men of the USS Monitor: Daniel Moore, African American Sailor and Hero

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 01.24.2012 | Culture

Read More: Dna, History, Newspapers, Civil War Sesquicentennial, Military, Civil War, Slavery, Daniel Moore, Forensics, Slidepollajax, Genetics, Genealogy, Navy, USS Monitor, African Americans, Culture News

Daniel Moore was one of the 16 sailors who went down with the USS Monitor. A former slave from Virginia, he enlisted in the Navy but would sadly have little time to enjoy his freedom before sacrificing his life in the service of his country.

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SAMHSA Statistics Ignore 500,000 Mentally Ill

DJ Jaffe | Posted 01.24.2012 | Impact

Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Homelessness, Incarceration, Forensics, Prisons, Samhsa, Jails, Impact News

Excluding certain groups has led SAMHSA to understate the incidence of serious mental illness and overstate the percentage who receive treatment.

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Survey: Law Enforcement Overburdened by Failure of Mental Health Departments

DJ Jaffe | Posted 12.21.2011 | Crime

Read More: Forensics, Police, Jail, Prisons, Crime, Law Enforcement, Mental Health, Homeland Security, Incarceration, Arrest, Sheriff, Crime News

A new nationwide survey of 2,406 senior law enforcement officials (75% of whom were officers longer than 20 years) documents police and sheriffs are b...

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Men of the USS Monitor: County Galway, Ireland is Home to Another American Hero

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 12.13.2011 | Culture

Read More: Dna, History, Military, Civil War Sesquicentennial, Civil War, Galway, Forensics, Ireland, Genetics, Genealogy, Navy, Irish, USS Monitor, Culture News

Thomas Joice (who sometimes went by Joyce) was one of the 16 men who went down with the USS Monitor on Dec. 31, 1862. Some years ago, I researched him for a documentary and have continued to look into his past from time to time.

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Forensics Fraud: Video Shows 'Bite Mark Expert' Fabricating Evidence

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 11.01.2011 | Crime

Read More: Eddie Lee Howard, Video, Crime, Michael West, Criminal Justice, Innocence Project, Innocence, Jim Hood, Mississippi, Louisiana, Jimmie Duncan, Forensics, Steven Hayne, Death Penalty, Leigh Stubbs, Crime News

On Aug. 9, The Huffington Post reported on the case of Leigh Stubbs, a Mississippi woman serving a 44-year sentence for assault and drug charges. Stub...

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John Wayne Gacy Forensics Team Will Be Spotlit In Smithsonian Special

Posted 10.19.2011 | Chicago

Read More: Murder, Serial Killer, Smithsonian Institute, Gacy, John Wayne Gacy, Forensics, Smithsonian, Des Plaines Police, Tv, Chicago News

The Des Plaines Police Department will be featured in a Smithsonian Channel television series that highlights the science used to identify the victims...

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The 'Re-composer' of the Decomposed

Diane Dimond | Posted 10.15.2011 | Crime

Read More: Forensics, Forensic Science, Frank Bender Sculptor, Frank Bender Death, Frank Bender Dead, Frank Bender, Forensic Sculptors, Solving Crimes, Sculpture, Crime News

A man died recently that I want you to know about. In his own very unique way he developed an expertise that helped bring justice to those who would otherwise never get it. His name was Frank Bender and he was the best known of a rare breed of forensic sculptors.

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A Fraudulent Conviction? Mississippi Woman Serving 44-Year Sentence Despite Discredited Testimony

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 10.09.2011 | Crime

Read More: Video, Mississippi, Forensic Science, Michael West, Crime, Bite Marks, Dunn Lampton, Wrongful Conviction, Forensics, Innocence Project, Leigh Stubbs, Innocence, Crime News

Prosecutors in the U.S. often decry what is sometimes called the "CSI Effect." Movies and TV crime dramas like the popular "CSI" franchise on CBS can ...

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DNA Experts: Glaring Errors In Amanda Knox Case

AP | Posted 09.24.2011 | World

Read More: Amanda Knox, Dna, Amanda Knox Appeal, Video, Amanda Knox Trial, Forensics, Meredith Kercher, Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, World News

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press PERUGIA, Italy (AP) -- The investigators who collected the genetic evidence used to convict American student ...

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Forensic Art Expert Sues Over New Yorker Article

ARTINFO | Posted 09.06.2011 | Arts

Read More: Peter Paul Biro, Jackson Pollock, Pat Wertheim, Defamation, Forensic Art, Thomas Hoving, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Biro, Forensics, David Grann, Jay Leno, Who the #$% Is Jackson Pollock, Lawsuit, Arts News

Forensic art analyst Peter Paul Biro, the subject of a 2010 exposé in the New Yorker, is suing the magazine's publisher for defamation to the tune of...

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What Kind of Name Is Boreanaz?

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 07.16.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Slovakia, Bones, Emily Deschanel, Heritage, Books, Fbi, Italy, Slovenia, New York, Colorado, Television, David Boreanaz, Pennsylvania, Ancestry, Forensics, Mysteries, Genealogy, Sicily, Fox, Family History, Kathy Reichs, Celebrities, Entertainment News

What of Boreanaz? Well, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone of Italian heritage who tracks to more extreme edges of the country.

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INTERNATIONAL ART: King Henri IV's Head Identified And Sent Back To Crypt, After Two Centuries

France24 | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Forensic Science, Catholicism, French-History, Religious History, Forensics, Henri IV, King Henri IV, British Medical Journal, French Kings, French Revolution, French Monarchy, Arts News

AFP - He was one of France's most adored kings, a monarch known as "le bon roi Henri" (good king Henri), who promoted religious tolerance, was a hit w...

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Largest & Longest Study: New Treatment Law Helps Mentally Ill Avoid Incarceration, Homelessness and Hospitalization

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The Halloween triple-murder in Bono, Ohio of William Liske, Jr., his wife Susan, and son Derrick has again focused the public's attention on what to d...

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Court rules gassing mentally ill is illegal. Is this the best we can do?

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Depression, Mentally Ill, Mental Health, Corrections, Crime, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, Hospital, Involuntary Treatment, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Involuntary Commitment, Prison, Psychiatrist, Schizophrenia, Prisons, Jail, Mental, Psychiatric, Aot, Grohol, Jury, Judge, Death Penalty, Health, Psychologist, Healthcare, Murder, Arson, U.S. Court of Appeals, Forensics, Politics News

Psychiatric Times reported an appelate court decision: "Chemical Gassing of Mentally Ill Inmates is Unconsitutional": A Federal appeals court has su...

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NYS Senate voted today to not help mentally ill, not keep public safer and not save money

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

As part of the budget non-process, the NYS Senate today voted not to make Kendra's Law permanent and not to improve it. That means they voted not to h...

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New Report: It's Now a Crime to be Mentally Ill

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

A report in today's USA Today by the nation's most reputable mental illness researcher, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey shows that in the United States, you are ...

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Why Sherlock Holmes Beats CSI Any Day

S.J. Parris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Detectives, Writers, Writing, Sherlock Holmes, Science, Crime Fiction, Books, Forensics, Murder Mysteries, Csi, Books News

It's forensics and DNA that have caused all the trouble. Time was, anyone could solve a murder in a detective novel, which meant just about anybody could have a go at writing one.

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Forensic Lab Problems Cry Out for More Oversight and Quality Standards

John Terzano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Forensics, Oversight, Forensic Science, Criminal Justice, Independent Labs, Justice, Fingerprint, Home News

A spate of recent news reports has called into question the objectivity of some forensic evidence and highlighted the need for effective oversight mec...

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