NEW ORLEANS — With thousands of untested DNA samples in its warehouse, there is no question the NOPD needs a faster way to process forensic evidence. It is a problem almost two decades in the making ...
MINNEAPOLIS — The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is investigating the origin and impact of a contamination that may have impacted dozens of DNA samples at their lab. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s ...
ST. PAUL — The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has put DNA testing at its crime lab on hold as it works to determine the source of “sporadic DNA contamination.” The sheriff’s office said it appears ...
Dozens of DNA samples in Hennepin County’s crime lab could have been contaminated by outside materials, the sheriff’s office said on Monday. Staff at the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office Forensic ...
It was technically a successful scientific discovery when analysts at the Hennepin County forensic science lab recognized there was a contaminant somewhere in its DNA process. That did not lessen the ...
Eight DNA profiles were cross-contaminated by sloppy lab work at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Daily News has learned. Four of the profiles were entered into a federal database, CODIS, ...
The sloppy lab work recently uncovered at the medical examiner’s office is worse than first believed, with an internal review finding additional DNA samples were contaminated and that expired bleach ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- When Tracy Kenemore, a traffic control officer for 21 years with the Louisville Metro Police Department, was murdered in 2020, prosecutors and police were desperate to ...
The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office is shaving weeks, maybe even months, off criminal investigations. A plan that was four years in the making became reality Friday when the county’s top law ...