A US man who spent nearly four decades in prison for murder has been released after new DNA evidence pointed to a different person. Maurice Hastings served more than 38 years in state prison for […]
A woman has demanded compensation from health authorities in northern Spain after discovering she was mistakenly swapped at birth with another baby 19 years ago, local reports say. The woman was mixed up with a […]
A man who killed two schoolgirls is to be released from prison. Colin Pitchfork has served 33 years in jail for raping and murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in the 1980s. Last month […]
DNA evidence from a discarded cigarette has led Florida police to arrest a man on suspicion of murdering a woman 35 years ago. Daniel Wells, 57, was arrested and charged in Pensacola earlier this week […]
A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape and released on bail, in the case of a woman who claims her own birth is proof her father was a rapist. “Vicky” alleges her birth […]
Identical triplets have been jailed after DNA linked them to a plot to supply an “extremely dangerous criminal” with an Uzi sub-machine gun. DNA found on a handgun linked it to either Reiss, Ralston or […]
California Appeals Court to Hear Arguments on Defense Review of DNA Analysis System Fresno – On Wednesday, May 22, at 9 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue that criminal defendants have a right […]
LOS ANGELES — A reputed gang member who beat a murder charge decades ago and went on to land a job as a police officer was convicted Thursday of the 30-year-old killing after DNA evidence […]
The quality of forensic science work in England and Wales is at risk and could threaten the integrity of the criminal justice system, the regulator has said. Forensic Science Regulator Gillian Tully said some police […]
A brawl almost broke out in a Brooklyn courtroom Thursday as a suspect in the gruesome 2004 murder of a 17-year-old girl was led into the hearing — and the victim’s enraged kin tried to […]
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