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The first step in the investigation that cracked the case was to reconstruct the plane and its parts from hundreds of thousands of fragments scattered across 845 sq. mi. of Scottish meadows, woods, bogs and lakes. Forensic experts eventually determined after examining fragments, including a tiny piece of tan plastic...
How can police in towns separated by hundreds of miles tell when a roaming serial murderer or rapist is at work? The FBI will soon provide a key with its new Combined DNA Identification System (CODIS). The computer program provides a universal registry of DNA traces found in the blood...
Aghast, we cover our faces, confused and unable to choose between expressions of disgust and nervous laughter. What a surprise . . . who could have imagined . . . such horror. There is a moment of black epiphany at the revelation of a particularly heinous crime -- a moment that is both oracular and inexpressible. Statistics...
FORENSIC SCIENCE. Amplified by PCR, the DNA in a single sperm cell can link a suspect to a rape victim. Theoretically, a single epithelial cell found in saliva can be traced back to the person who, say, licked a stamp on a letter bomb. In California's San Mateo County...
Those conclusions come only after probes by two different NIH committees and three separate congressional hearings over the past three years. The highlight was an icy confrontation in May 1989 between Baltimore and John Dingell, the powerful chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. At the time, the...