DNA Analysis

People fear what they don’t understand. Here’s a look at misconceptions and the facts

A woman whose rape kit DNA was used by San Francisco police to arrest her for an unrelated property crime is now planning to sue the city

Take the guesswork out of important funding

Does failure to collect DNA evidence change the outcome of a recent case or will eyewitness accounts be sufficient?

Detective Sgt. Jon Kadner said it's the oldest case he could find nationwide that has been solved using forensic genealogy

Police can use consumer genealogy websites after exhausting other methods and under judge supervision

The society, which was founded in 1990, is a members-only club in Philadelphia; the group focuses their efforts on solving cold case homicides

The ANDE Rapid DNA Instrument has proven invaluable in several cases, including identifying the victims of the Conception boat fire

Detective Ashley Nolan of the Chandler Police Department in Arizona details how her PD solved a sexual assault cold case from 1986

DNA evidence was sent to a private lab that compared the DNA to publicly available databases shared by consumer companies like 23andMe

The now-dead suspect is believed to be linked to other cold cases from the 1970s

The outlaw killed his wife with an ax and was last seen after escaping from jail in 1916

Here are the events and technologies the P1 team and our readership viewed as having the most significant impact on the profession in the last decade

In this tip, Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham discusses why a case based primarily on an eyewitness identification should be considered extremely risky. 

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