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Forensic scientist uses secret technique to rehydrate mummified corpses from old homicides
Mexican forensic expert Alejandro Hernandez dips dry, yellowish cadavers in a see-through bath, hoping his technique to rehydrate mummified bodies will solve murders in crime-infested Ciudad Juarez. The city bordering Texas has endured drug-related violence and a wave of murders of women in recent years, with bodies dumped anywhere and…
Author John Grisham laments bad courtroom science
Best-selling crime author John Grisham told lawmakers that faulty science is all over the US justice system, and urged nationwide improvements to forensic techniques. “It is time to clean up the bad science,” said Grisham, who serves on the board of the Innocence Project, a group that works to exonerate…
Texas man executed for hair that didn’t belong to him
WASHINGTON — A Texas man was condemned to death and executed in 2000 on the basis of hair that did not belong to him, according to the results of a DNA test released Thursday. A test by Mitotyping Technologies published by the Texas Observer magazine — which fought a three-year…
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