Read more DNA evidence stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/20550/dna-evidence.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 19:03:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70666/feds-saw-bloody-outline-of-child-in-anthonys-trunk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFBI forensics experts found a blood stain in the shape of a child in fetal position in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car, according to newly released documents. One intelligence analyst pointed out the silhouette in an email to another bureau employee last September. “You can make out what may...http://www.newser.com/story/70666/feds-saw-bloody-outline-of-child-in-anthonys-trunk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 12:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69736/clark-tried-to-cover-his-tracks-as-cops-searched.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBefore his arrest, murder suspect Raymond Clark tried to cover his tracks even as FBI agents and police searched the Yale lab where he worked. Clark, who has been charged with the murder of grad student Annie Le, was seen cleaning areas where Le had been before she died and...http://www.newser.com/story/69736/clark-tried-to-cover-his-tracks-as-cops-searched.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 7:37:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67140/dna-evidence-easy-to-fake.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThink DNA evidence is foolproof? In fact, it's so easy to fabricate that "any biology undergrad" could engineer a crime scene, claim scientists in Israel. Raising troubling implications for a legal system that treats DNA as a gold standard, the scientists have demonstrated that DNA samples are vulnerable to both...http://www.newser.com/story/67140/dna-evidence-easy-to-fake.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 4:57:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66554/opera-stars-son-nabbed-in-91-rapemurder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome 18 years after a Pennsylvania camp counselor was shot in the head and raped as she died, cops have charged the son of a famed Metropolitan Opera bass with the brutal murder, the New York Post reports. Jeffrey Plishka, 46, has long been suspected of the crime, and the...http://www.newser.com/story/66554/opera-stars-son-nabbed-in-91-rapemurder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Aug 2009 13:35:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62260/dna-shows-mich-man-is-not-long-missing-ny-boy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe FBI says DNA testing confirms that a 54-year-old Michigan man is not a toddler kidnapped in Long Island in 1955. John Barnes is not Stephen Damman, who disappeared at age 2 from outside an East Meadow bakery while his mother shopped. Barnes says he has long suspected the couple...http://www.newser.com/story/62260/dna-shows-mich-man-is-not-long-missing-ny-boy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 18 Jun 2009 16:16:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62225/convicts-dont-have-right-to-test-dna-supreme-court.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court said today that convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime. The court ruled 5-4, with the conservative justices in the majority, against William Osborne, an Alaska man convicted in a...http://www.newser.com/story/62225/convicts-dont-have-right-to-test-dna-supreme-court.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 18 Jun 2009 9:54:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57684/la-cops-arrest-suspected-serial-killer-from-70s-80s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLos Angeles police say a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster may in fact be the city's "most prolific serial killer," the Los Angeles Times reports. The suspect, John Floyd Thomas, may have killed up to 30 older women and raped scores more during two separate rampages in the 1970s and 1980s,...http://www.newser.com/story/57684/la-cops-arrest-suspected-serial-killer-from-70s-80s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Apr 2009 17:57:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54541/move-over-police-sketches-dnas-on-the-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe old-fashioned police sketch could soon be obsolete, the Wall Street Journal reports, thanks to DNA forensic phenotyping, an increasingly popular technique that uses crime-scene DNA to describe a suspect. So far, labs can only determine details such as ethnicity and physical traits, but that alone has helped in some...http://www.newser.com/story/54541/move-over-police-sketches-dnas-on-the-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 27 Mar 2009 10:02:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54531/sloppy-dna-work-creates-myth-of-phantom-serial-killer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEmbarrassed German cops may soon call off their hunt for a notorious female serial killer, the Times of London reports. DNA from a suspect dubbed "the woman without a face” has been found at dozens of crime scenes across Europe, including stranglings and shootings, but detectives now believe the DNA...http://www.newser.com/story/54531/sloppy-dna-work-creates-myth-of-phantom-serial-killer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 27 Mar 2009 9:13:31 CDT