A novel approach to teaching forensics at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Forensic Anthropology Field School is using global positioning systems (GPS) and geographical information systems (GIS) to examine complex crime scenes.
http://www.physorg.com/news200923298.html
Did Suzy Lamplugh have an affair with her killer? Dossier suggests twist in murder case
Renewed hope of solving the mystery of missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh - 24 years after she vanished without trace - quietly faded this week in a meadow between Pershore and Drakes Broughton in Worcestershire.
For two days, police - acting on a tip-off about a burial site - conducted a painstaking search using ground-penetrating radar devices and a mechanical digger in the hope of finding evidence of a shallow grave or human remains.
But on Wednesday night, forensic experts left the site - three miles from the former Norton Army Barracks, where there was a similar search nine years ago - no closer to finding the the evidence that might finally allow police to charge the man they are convinced abducted and murdered Suzy.
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Child molester trapped by forensic evidence 28 years later
A MAN who subjected an 11-year-old girl to a horrific sexual attack in the 1980s has been jailed 28 years later thanks to DNA evidence.
Adrian de Havilland, formerly Adrian Goodenough, leapt from a bush holding a dagger and wearing a balaclava as two girls aged 10 and 11 cycled along a footpath near Didcot Power Station in April 1982.
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/8332227.Child_molester_trapped_by_forensic_evidence_28_years_later/
