The commonly-used evidence in trials, bitemark analysis, is not backed up by scientific research – an analysis of current literature, and 12 new studies, shows.
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Woman sentenced in Texas for cryptocurrency money laundering.
Using AI, researchers find commercial fishermen are purposefully disabling AIS (Automatic Identification System) to conceal the location of their illegal fishing activities.
The FBI just launched a nationwide, coordinated takedown of a national network of criminals involved with stealing and processing catalytic converters across the country.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement partners from across the United States executed a nationwide, coordinated takedown today of leaders and associates of a national network of thieves, dealers, and processors for their roles in conspiracies involving stolen catalytic converters sold to a metal refinery for tens of millions of dollars.
After gaining access to digital wallet private keys stored with online service, husband and wife are arrested and US seizes $3.6 Billion in stolen Bitcoin linked to 2016 hack of Bitfinex.
Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, both of New York, New York, were arrested this morning in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion.
Twitter hackers charged – 17-year-old Florida teen, 19-year-old UK teen, and 22-year-old Floridian arrested today.
Colton Harris Moore (the Barefoot Bandit) – the amazing escapades of a modern day “catch me if you can” burglar
He first appeared on the police crime blotters at age 8 – for stealing a bicycle. As he grew older his criminal escapes progressed and soon he was arrested and jailed. He escaped from jail in April 2008, resuming his criminal activities, he set out on a crime rampage. He has stolen four airplanes (while…
Potential new evidence in O.J. Simpson case – large knife found on former OJ Simpson’s Rockingham estate
TMZ broke the news this week that a new twist in the O.J. Simpson case presented itself after a knife was found buried on Simpson’s former estate in Brentwood, California. Recall that the weapon used to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman was proposed to be a “long, serrated knife”. The knife…
The Complete Salem Witch Trials Guide – mass hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts ends with the deaths of 25 people – official documents, sketches, maps, and more!
The Salem witch Trials were a series of hearings, and executions, of people accused of witchcraft in the towns of Salem Village, Salem Town, Ipswich, and Andover, Massachusetts. In the end, twenty-five people died, most of them women. Today the trials are considered abominable and serve as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of…
14-year-old George Stinney – youngest person ever executed in the U.S. – required a booster seat in the electric chair.
At only 14 years of age, George Junius Stinney, Jr. was the youngest person executed in the United States. Weighing only 90 lbs., Stinney was so small, he required a booster seat to reach the headpiece of the electric chair that took his last breath. With no physical evidence in the case, the all-white jury…