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Odessa American

DPS honors Crime Laboratory during National Forensic Science Week

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Texas-based DNA lab helps identify Pennsylvania homicide victim found in Maryland in 1971

Othram identifies Sadie Belle Murray, aka Sarah Sharkey, in a 1971 Maryland cold case, reuniting her children after decades ...

Forensic lab's DNA breakthrough leads to first-degree murder charge in 1992 newborn death

More than three decades after a newborn was found dead in an Iowa City landfill, advanced DNA testing has led to an ...
NJ.com

Hudson County Prosecutor's Office opens DNA lab

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office has opened its own DNA lab, cutting down on the time it takes to receive results that occurred when sending test samples to the busy New Jersey State Police ...

Texas lab uses DNA to identify Collin County ‘Jane Doe’ after 27 years

Penny Gunn, above, was identified by Texas DNA lab Othram nearly 27 years after her death in Collin County’s Lake Ray Hubbard ...
Post and Courier

Charleston police open new DNA lab, the first of its kind in the tri-county area

The promise of solving crimes more quickly, efficiently and accurately is coming to the Lowcountry as police cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art DNA testing laboratory that is the first of its ...