Word: victimization
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Harvard starter Justin Nyweide was the victim of the shoddy fielding. The junior righthander went four innings and allowed seven runs, only two of them earned...
Back at the police lab, the coroner's report transformed the case into a sex crime: physical evidence suggested the victim had had passive anal sex shortly before his death. A fingerprint check came up with his identity, as it would for most males in Taiwan, who are printed before the island-state's two-year manadatory military service: Lin Chih-hao, a 20-year-old accounting student at Taipei University who lived with his parents. Classmates described Lin as a perfectionist...
...cyberpals agreed to meet at a bank across from the Taipei Railway Station. Police had already found Lin's discarded backpack in a trashbin near the station. Inside was a bus ticket confirming that the student traveled to the station at 7:32 that evening. Breakthrough: the victim was linked to the chat room...
...most cases she depends on police to collect the specimens--which means training the officers to do it properly and thoroughly. "One maggot doesn't help me," she says. DNA technology promises greater advances in her field. Recently, the FBI matched a suspect to his dead rape victim by the blood contained in a single louse that had migrated from...
They have identified three so far. The most compelling involves a man serving 12 years for molesting a girl who was playing in his apartment. But others were there at the time. Police found a small drop of saliva on the victim's shirt--too small a sample to test in 1991. Today that spot could free a man. Test results are due any day. Inspired by San Diego, 10 other counties in the U.S. are starting DNA audits...