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The myth of CSI

 

In reality, many forensic science labs are corrupt or incompetent

THE CONTROVERSY about whether the state’s chief medical examiner falsified his credentials puts one more crack in our national myth about crime scene investigations. That myth, created by the CSI shows that have been a staple of TV for the past decade, portray crime labs as models of ultra-modern efficiency, where dedicated investigators use state-of-the-art (or even fictional) science to solve impossible cases in the course of an hour.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/10/13/the_myth_of_csi/

Video: Woodburn bank bombing trial continues

 

The trial basics: Bruce Turnidge of Jefferson and Joshua Turnidge of Salem are accused of making a bomb that was found outside West Coast Bank in Woodburn on Dec. 12, 2008. The green box found outside the bank was deemed a hoax. It exploded in the bank — killing two police officers, critically injuring another and wounding a bank employee.

Read more: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20101013/NEWS/10130429/1001/news#ixzz12FgucOwN

 

 

Anthony Zuiker Takes CSI to the Next Level 26

FORENSIC PROOF KILLER!!!

Zuiker explains that:

when you fly back and forth twice a week for ten years from Las Vegas to Burbank and work on the CSI franchise as your first television script there’s a lot of pain involved, so I’ve pretty much put the pain and pressure and stress into my art, which is things like Dark Origins and Dark Prophecy . . . I think in terms of Sqweegel the forensic-proof killer a lot of it has to do with law enforcement giving me a hard time about giving away secrets to people on CSI about getting away with things. It gave me the idea of “what if i made a forensic-proof latex suit for a villain who was a contortionist,” and see if CSI can catch that guy.

http://www.argn.com/2010/10/anthony_zuiker_takes_csi_tothe_next_level_26/

 

 

 

 

 

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Better ‘wildlife forensics’ needed to stop illegal trade

 

Better reporting and more investigation are needed in threatened wildlife trading, say scientists who point to suspicious exports of frogs.

There is evidence that wild-caught specimens are being laundered under the guise of being captive-bred, they said.

Some endangered or threatened animals are traded internationally, depending on the level of threat deemed by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3442/better-%E2%80%98wildlife-forensics%E2%80%99-needed-stop-illegal-trade

 Hair Alcohol Abuse Test: The Science Behind AbuseCheck™

The detection of illegal drugs has been an established procedure in forensic toxicology since the mid-1990s. Once ingested, opiates, cocaine, cannabinoides and amphetamines are metabolized in the body and their breakdown products enter permanently into the hair root from where they are deposited permanently in the hair in characteristic relationships parent substance/metabolite.  

http://www.consumergenetics.com/hair-alcohol/hair-alcohol-science.php 

New Technology Revolutionizes Ballistics Testing and Forensic Firearms ID - Promises to Advance Public Safety and Homeland Security

 Groundbreaking new technology that will help fight crime and promote national security is now in production. For the first time ever, crime labs and ballistics researchers can consistently capture perfectly intact bullets and slugs of any type, fired from any firearm, including hollow points and even high-explosive large-caliber military rounds. The Duke Projectile Recovery System holds enormous promise for advances in public safety, homeland security and the war on terrorism because its results are so vastly superior to those previously achievable.

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Entomological Society of America names 2010 Insect Science Award winners

 http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/47902765/entomological-society-of-america-names-2010-insect-science-award.html

 

 

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How insect detectives crack crime

 

 Where the police and pathologists fail, flies and maggots — and the Natural History Museum’s forensic entomologists — can solve even some of the most difficult of murders 

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2010/09/25/2003483706

 

GBI Forensic Anthropologist Investigates Parker's Remains

 

 

ATLANTA - FOX 5 News was allowed inside the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab where a forensic anthropologist is examining the remains of Theresa Parker. The 911 dispatcher vanished in 2007 and her remains were discovered last week.

 

New state forensics center brings state-of-the-art technology to death investigations

For the about 10,000 people each year whose deaths are investigated by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a change in venue won't mean much.

However, for families who must come to identify a body and for the medical examiners who work there, the state's new $44 million Forensic Medical Center in Baltimore will offer more comfortable surroundings and upgraded technology to simplify the process of death investigations and autopsies, staff said.

http://www.gazette.net/stories/09302010/prinnew161628_32536.php

 

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DNA Is New Weapon In Fight Against Dogfighting

Scientists are hoping that a new DNA database for dogs will help track -- and prosecute -- people who breed dogs to fight. But advocates say there's a risk that the DNA records could be used against the dogs, or against people who adopt them.

The idea is to have a canine version ofFBI's CODIS -- a database of human DNA that isused to connect criminals to crime scenes. But in this case, the DNA might help prove that breeders supplied dogs to a dogfighting ring.

In July 2009, a dogfighting operation was raided in northwest Missouri.Tim Rickey, the senior director of field operations for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,recalls the scene from that morning.

http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/09/27/dna-is-new-weapon-in-fight-against-dogfighting

 

 

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