Wisconsin Department of Corrections Outsmarted by Convict

So the Wisconsin DOC was out­smarted by an in-custody pris­oner, who had other peo­ple donate DNA sam­ples and and fingerprints.

“We have rea­son to believe that Walter Ellis con­vinced another inmate to give a DNA sam­ple and an accom­pa­ny­ing fin­ger­print of the other inmate because he did not want to give a sam­ple for reasons

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Baby CODIS?

Currently there are spe­cific rules in place for what DNA pro­files can and can not be placed into CODIS (Combined DNA Index System), but I didn’t know that the blood sam­ple taken from all new­born babies are being saved in some states.

It’s only a mat­ter of time before restric­tions get loos­ened up, and every new­born baby’s

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State hits crime lab on DNA cache

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Massachusetts State Police lab col­lect and store DNA pro­files they shouldn’t be allowed to. This is an inher­ent prob­lem with data­bases that col­lect per­sonal infor­ma­tion, when there is no over­sight. The police can store infor­ma­tion they are not sup­posed to. This case may or may not have been “acci­den­tal”, but this

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CSI Miami Episode # 707 “Cheating Death”

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The open­ing of this one is pretty humor­ous. A vaca­tion­ing Kansas cou­ple is try­ing to sleep in their Miami hotel, but there’s loud bang­ing com­ing from an adja­cent room, sounds like a cou­ple in the throes of pas­sion. When the cou­ple bangs on the wall yelling at their neigh­bors to quiet down,

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