Fall 2020 Edition of The ISHI Report Now Live
Greetings from Madison, Wisconsin. We hope this edition of the ISHI Report finds you well. The latest ISHI Report is packed with updates from the field of forensics. The topic of genetic genealogy is top of mind in large part for its effectiveness in solving cold cases when all else has failed. Andrew Macleod […]
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! New Interview with Paul Fronczak (WRBL – 11/6/2020) A southern […]
Using LIMS Technology (Laboratory information management system) to Obtain High Quality Nucleic Acid Samples
Latin America today is one of the centers of the global health crisis caused by COVID-19, and Brazil is considered the epicenter of the pandemic in Latin America. As of July, 1,545,458 cases and 63,295 deaths have been reported. Despite the large number of cases, only 15,668 tests for COVID- 19 have been performed per […]
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! Poachers Beware: New Gel Electrophoresis Method Can Accurately ID Degraded […]
mtDNA Population Databases for Forensic Purposes: An Overview of the Situation in South America
Mapping and understanding the high ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity of South American populations has been the main focus of various studies in different fields of science. The process of colonizing South America resulted in a heterogeneous distribution of three main ancestral contributions (Amerindia, European and African) in the populations that currently inhabit the different […]
Investigative Genetic Genealogy and Criminalistics – What is the Future?
Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) has been amazing in solving both cold and recent cases and for exonerating the innocent. Each day, another once-thought-to-be-intractable case is solved using this new-to-forensics means of human identification. We live in exciting times for forensic identification! Despite, or because of, this success, the use of genetic genealogical data for forensic […]
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! Sketch of 1987 John Doe Released as Genealogists Look for […]
Determining the Size of the D18S51 Long Alleles Observed in the Costa Rican Population using Commercial Genotyping Kits with STRs
As previously reported, the Costa Rican population exhibits long alleles (not included in commercial allelic ladders) at the STR D18S51 locus, ranging from 28 to 40 Repetitions. These alleles were described using the PowerPlex®16 and AmpFLSTR™ Identifiler™. With the arrival of new commercial kits, it is necessary to identify these long alleles in D18S51 […]
Loveless Lost: The Case of the Oldest Doe Identified Using Forensic Genetic Genealogy
In the summer of 1979, a family was searching for artifacts in Buffalo Cave, a dark lava tube outside of the small and remote town of Dubois, Idaho. Approximately 200 feet from the opening of the cave, the family discovered a burlap sack containing a mummified, clothed, and dismembered headless torso. The Clark County Sheriff’s […]
