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National Archives To CSI-ify Haldeman's Paper Notes In Search Of Watergate's...
I Am Not A Crook Former-President Nixon (right), with H. R. Haldeman (left) Of the remaining mysteries surrounding the Watergate break-in, none confound conspiracy buffs more than the 18 and a half...
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New Virtual-Reality Forensic Technique Maps Out 3-D Crime Scene From a Single...
Now where did I put that bloody knife? via Oregon State PoliceIt's a scene familiar from a plethora of TV shows and movies: the crime scene photographer, carefully stalking around a taped-off area,...
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New Nanotech Fingerprint Analysis Promises to Uncover New Clues in Cold Cases
Fingerprint timsnell via Flickr A new fingerprint analysis method will make it easier for forensic investigators to study old, dry fingerprints, potentially unmasking new evidence in cold cases. Using...
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Utah Man Posts Facebook Updates During SWAT Standoff, Gets Help From Online...
Hostage Situation via Facebook A Utah man involved in a 16-hour standoff with police Friday night posted status updates about the ordeal on Facebook, sharing photos of himself with the woman police...
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How Do You Autopsy a Whale?
Michael Moore's Whale Necropsy Kit Michael Moore, a veterinarian and whale biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, displays the contents of his portable whale necropsy kit. Rebecca...
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Robotic Guards Will Soon Patrol South Korean Prison
Korean Robot Guard Prototypes of a prison guard robot are set to begin a test run in March, according to the South Korean news agency. Yonhap News Agency The possibility of robot workers raises a...
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Drunk Eyewitnesses Are Just As Reliable As Sober Eyewitnesses
Vodka Screwdriver Wikimedia Commons A new study from the psychology department of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden sought to discover whether alcohol consumption really does lessen your ability...
View ArticleWhy So Many Men Kill Their Families On Sundays In August
In what must be one of the darkest research projects we've covered, a British team has studied 32 years' worth of "family annihilator" cases, where one member of a family murders multiple others. Some...
View ArticleHow Often Do Mass Shooters Die In Their Attacks?
Details are starting to emerge in the aftermath of yesterday's deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in D.C., a military administrative headquarters. Though at first,…
View ArticleTrained Police Rats Sniff Out Crime In The Netherlands
In Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands, rats are more than just scurrying subway pests. They're trained crime fighters. The Dutch police have begun…
View ArticleDid We Steal Our Moon From Venus?
Dave Stevenson, professor of planetary science at Caltech, gave an intriguing speech at the Origin of the Moon conference in London this week. The most widely accepted…
View ArticleDo Their Teenaged Brains Make Adolescents More Likely To Commit Crimes?
Teenagers arenât known for making extraordinarily good decisions. Theyâre stereotypically known to do somewhat idiotic things, like, for instance, drunkenly stealing a…
View ArticleBuilding A Social Network Of Crime
In Chicago's gang-embattled South Side, a shooting can incite swift retaliation, which spawns even further violence. Thatâs what may have happened in September in Cornell…
View ArticleRadio Tecnico: How The Zetas Cartel Took Over Mexico With Walkie-Talkies
On September 16, 2008, Carl Pike, the deputy head of the Drug Enforcement Administrationâs Special Operations Division, watched live video feeds from a command center…
View ArticleIt's Time To Treat Crime Forensics Like Real Science
John McCormick, a 63-year-old cab driver, was on his porch the morning of July 26, 1978, when he was robbed and shot dead. His wife, awakened by the commotion, reported…
View ArticleGut Microbes Take Over Your Body When You Die
You have around 100 trillion bacteria living in your gut â and thatâs a good thing. Known as gut flora or the gut microbiome, these microorganisms help your body digest…
View ArticleWhat Happens To A Body When It's 'Sleeping With The Fishes'?
Forensic scientists often have to reconstruct the events leading up to and following a person's death, in case of foul play. The state of the body can reveal when the…
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Pubic Bacteria May Help Catch Sexual Assaulters
Each microbiome is a snowflake. "Invisible Worlds" by MJ Richardson via geograph.org.uk.For decades, DNA testing has been the standard test used to identify sexual assaulters. Authorities try to gather...
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Body Cameras On Cops: Do They Work?
The mere presence or absence of a camera does not deter violent behavior. We know this through decades of research on CCTV demonstrating that video monitoring has little to no effect on violent crime...
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