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Hirisplex: forensic test predicts hair and eye color using DNA left at crime scene

Scientists have developed Hirisplex, a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye color of a possible suspect using DNA left at a crime scene

Scientists have developed a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye color of a possible suspect using DNA left at a crime scene. The team that developed the test says it could provide valuable leads in cases where perpetrators cannot be identified through DNA profiling. The Hirisplex system could allow investigators to narrow down a large group of possible suspects. Details appear in…

27 faces of man’s ancestors, stretching back 7 million years, rebuilt by forensic anthropologists

Salhelanthropus tchadensis dates to a time before humans and chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary cousins, became genetically separate, about seven million years ago

Scientists have used forensic technology to recreate some of the most distant members of the human evolutionary “family”, ancestors stretching back seven million years, an presented the models at an exhibition in Dresden, Germany. Forensic anthropologists created 27 model heads using fossil remains, and include a glimpse of sahelanthropus tchadensis, an ancestor dated to about seven million years…

Mark Duggan’s death, forensic report. Latest news from London.

Mark Duggan was shot by the police Thursday August 4

See how much will cost the England riots.     Mark Duggan died by a single gunshot wounding his chest.     England latest news. London riots spread accross England: Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham!     New London riots. The third night of street violence!   Mark Duggan was shot in Northern London.   Northern London riots for Mark Duggan’s death.   According to t…

Mark Duggan’s forensic report. He died by a single gunshot wounding his chest.

Mark Duggan, the man who was shot by police, sparking the wave of rioting that has hit London, died of a single gunshot wounding his chest

Mark Duggan’s funeral, one month after London riots.   See how much will cost the UK riots.   England riots, the fourth night. Nottingham police station firebombed, Manchester and Salford disturbances.   Mark Duggan’s death forensic report.   The man who was shot by police, sparking the wave of rioting that has hit London, died of a single gunshot wounding his chest. An inquest has heard. M…

Kate Middleton pregnant: Forensic artist Joe Mullins generates images showing how Kate and William’s child could look

Forensic expert Joe Mullins has scientifically forecasted how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's little girl could look

Joe Mullins, the forensic expert who has scientifically forecasted how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s little boy or girl could look, said it is sure to be “adorable”. Washington based Joe Mullins has taken all the best features of the Royal couple and morphed them together. And with their piercing blue eyes, clear complexion and Kate Middleton’s thick dark locks, the child could…

Doubts raised over Neil Heywood death by Chinese forensic scientists

Wang Xuemei said there was little evidence Neil Heywood died from cyanide poisoning

Wang Xuemei, a prominent Chinese forensic scientist, has cast doubt on the official version of the death of British businessman Neil Heywood, which triggered a huge political scandal in China. Wang Xuemei said there was little evidence Neil Heywood died from cyanide poisoning. Neil Heywood was found dead in a hotel room in November 2011. Last month the wife of a prominent Chinese politician was f…

Amanda Knox is free, as murder conviction was overturned. Latest news.

Amanda Knox bursts into tears after she was sensationally cleared of the murder of Meredith Kercher

Amanda Knox was released from prison this evening after an appeal court overturned her murder conviction. Amanda Knox, 24, burst into tears and hugged her parents Curt Knox and Edda Mellas – as just feet away the family of Meredith Kercher could only look on in amazement. Amanda Knox has served four years of a 26-year prison sentence after being found guilty in 2009 of the brutal sex murder…

Brendan Mess case: Evidence suggests Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were involved in unsolved triple murder in 2011

Forensic evidence could tie Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the killings of Brendan Mess and other two men, who were found with their throats slit and marijuana dumped over their dead bodies in a Waltham house

“Mounting evidence” gathered by investigators suggest Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could have been involved in a grisly unsolved triple murder in 2011, it has emerged on Friday. Officials told ABC News that forensic evidence could tie Boston bomber brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the killings of Brendan Mess, Raphael Teken and Erik Weissman, who were found with their throats slit and…

9/11 stories: Randy Scott’s family discovers note dropped from World Trade Center after 10 years

A note in Randy Scott’s handwriting and with a smudge of his blood had been found at world Trade Center

For almost ten years Denise Scott believed her husband Randy  had been killed on impact when United Airlines Flight 175 smashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. But last year, just weeks before the 10-year anniversary of the horrific 9/11 attack, she received a call that changed her life – and the story of her husband’s death. A note in his handwriting and with a smu…

Madeleine McCann case: British cleaners and Portuguese manual workers among new suspects

British cleaners and Portuguese manual workers are among new suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation

British cleaners and Portuguese manual workers are among new suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation, according to recent reports in UK’s media. Scotland Yard identified what they describe as “people of interest” during a review of the Portuguese inquiry into the 3-year-old’s disappearance in May, 2007. The suspects are thought to number 12 – not 20 as has been reported – and include a num…

Marilyn Monroe’s final purchase proves she was not planning to kill herself, says S. David Bernstein

Marilyn Monroe used the check, which is now being auctioned off, to purchase a white chest of drawers worth $228.80 from Pilgrim's Furniture

Forensic psychologist Dr. S. David Bernstein has analyzed a check signed by Marilyn Monroe the day before her death and says that it proves she was not planning to kill herself. Marilyn Monroe used the check, which is now being auctioned off, to purchase a white chest of drawers worth $228.80 from Pilgrim’s Furniture, an act Harvard-trained Dr S. David Bernstein believes is inconsistent wit…

Did Amanda Berry’s 911 dispatcher curse at her?

The 911 dispatcher, who spoke to Amanda Berry after she escaped from the Cleveland house of horrors, is being investigated over claims he swore at the end of her emergency call

The 911 dispatcher, who spoke to Amanda Berry after she escaped from the Cleveland house of horrors, is being investigated over claims he swore at the end of her emergency call. The operator has previously been criticized for failing to keep Amanda Berry on the line or comfort her during her desperate call for help. But now new allegations have been made that the dispatcher calls Amanda Berry a “…

Louis XVI blood identified in gourd container

A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of France’s King Louis XVI

A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of France’s King Louis XVI. Louis XVI was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793. The scientists said the DNA is very similar to genetic material from what is believed to be the mummified head of an earlier French king, AFP reports. After Louis XVI’s beheading many…

Gary Dobson and David Norris convicted of Stephen Lawrence racist murder to be sentenced

Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he was stabbed to death near a bus stop in Eltham, south east London, in April 1993

Gary Dobson and David Norris, the two men convicted of the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 after he was stabbed to death, will be sentenced later. Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty by an Old Bailey jury after a trial based on forensic evidence. The two men will be sentenced as juveniles because they were under 18 at the time of the attack, which happened in s…

England riots, the fourth night. Nottingham police station firebombed, Manchester and Salford disturbances.

16,000 police officers have been placed on London's streets in order to prevent a fourth night of disturbances

See how much will cost the UK riots.   Mark Duggan’s forensic report. He died by a single gunshot wounding his chest.   London riots latest updates. Metropolitan Police took drastic actions.   Tuesday, the fourth night of riots in UK. One Nottingham police station was set ablaze by a group of up to 40 people, according to the police, meanwhile there was looting in Manchester  and…

Northern London riots for Mark Duggan’s death. Latest updates.

Northern London riots, August 7, 2011

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Horror scene near Budapest, Hungary. Man buried alive on Danube’s Csepel Island.

Hungarian police unearthed four bodies of suspected murder victims in a wooded area of Csepel Island

Man buried alive on Csepel Island, Hungary, gave his first TV interview.   Police unearthed four bodies of suspected murder victims in a wooded area of Budapest’s Csepel Island.   Budapest, Hungary. Police unearthed four bodies of suspected murder victims in a wooded area of Budapest’s Csepel Island, according to a Friday statement of the Hungarian National Bureau of Investigatio…

Flame malware makers send suicide command to infected computers

Flame malware’s makers have sent a "suicide" command that removes it from some infected computers

Flame malware’s makers have sent a “suicide” command that removes it from some infected computers. Security firm Symantec caught the command using booby-trapped computers set up to watch Flame’s actions. Flame came to light after the UN’s telecoms body asked for help with identifying a virus found stealing data from many PCs in the Middle East. New analysis of Flame reveal…

Katie Holmes files for divorce amid fears Tom Cruise will send Suri away to Sea Org

Katie Holmes's fears that daughter Suri was set to be inducted into a hardcore Scientology organization were the driving force behind the end of her marriage to Tom Cruise

New reports claim that Katie Holmes’s fears that daughter Suri was set to be inducted into a hardcore Scientology organization were the driving force behind the end of her marriage to Tom Cruise. Katie Holmes, 33, was allegedly convinced husband Tom Cruise was planning to send Suri, 6, away to Sea Organisation – an association of Scientologists established in 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard, t…

Hugo Chavez unveils Simon Bolivar’s 3-D face

Hugo Chavez has unveiled a 3-D reconstruction of the face of Simon Bolivar

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has unveiled a 3-D reconstruction of the face of Simon Bolivar, who died in 1830 after leading the fight against Spanish colonial rule in the region. The computer-generated image was created by artists studying Simon Bolivar’s remains. It looks remarkably like known portraits of the South American liberation hero. Two years ago Hugo Chavez ordered that the…

Bulgaria releases Burgas bomber image

Bulgarian police have released a composite image of the suspected suicide bomber in Burgas

Bulgarian police have released a composite image of the suspected suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists and a local driver on a bus on 18 July. The bomber, who blew up a bus in the Black Sea resort of Burgas, has not been identified yet. Forensic experts created the image of a dark-haired man with pale skin. The bomber’s head was found at the scene. Bulgarian police have released…

DNA test used to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from Yeti and Bigfoot

A British-Swiss team will use DNA testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from yeti and bigfoot

A British-Swiss team will use DNA testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from yeti and bigfoot. The project will examine hair, bone and other material from a collection amassed by a Swiss biologist – and will invite submissions from elsewhere. Many cultures relate legends of hairy, humanoid creatures that lurk in the wilds, rarely seen. But material claimed to be from s…

Drinking Time Machine phone app shows how binge will ravage your looks

Drinking Time Machine, a chilling new phone app, gives users an insight into how they will look after ten years of binge drinking

Drinking Time Machine, a chilling new phone app, gives users an insight into how they will look after ten years of binge drinking. The app has been designed by forensic artist Auriole Price as a warning of the devastating effects of alcohol on the body. By taking a photo and inputting your daily alcohol intake, the app shows how heavy drinking speeds up the ageing process. The unflattering pictur…

Families of Afghan massacre victims have been paid compensation

Sgt. Robert Bales had been formally charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, nine Afghan children and eight adults

Families of the Afghan people who lost their lives in the Kandahar massacre have been paid compensation. The US military gave $46,000 for each person killed, and $10,000 for each person injured, Afghan officials and tribal elders say. US staff sergeant Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Meanwhile, eight Afghan police officers and an ISAF foreign soldier have…

Sonar images show full map of Titanic on ocean floor for the first time

Researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field

The Titanic disaster has been revealed in extraordinary detailed images after researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field. Researchers hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened on that fateful night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg and plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic…

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