Illinois: CRIME LAB GETS SUPPORT TO CUT DNA BACKLOGCrime Control Digest
The Rule 23 opinion found that prosecutors improperly withheld exculpatory evidence from the defendant, consisting of crime lab notes of an Illinois State Police forensic scientist Debra Helton: According to Clutter’s report, Helton received a telephone call from [ISP Agent Jack] Eckerty on October...
Melissa Lamesch was found dead on the floor by the oven in the kitchen. Investigators did not find any electrical issues at the house and learned that the oven and stove burners were all in the off position.Ogle County State's Attorney Office But when Poel e...
There’s one other lab in the county and that’s it. Whereas there are clusters of labs in other parts of the state. Part of the draw to Santa Barbara for us was that it is such a small, tight-knit community. We have worked very hard to build relationships in our community and to...
TheState Journal-Registerreports 53-year-old Judith Hemken, of Litchfield, and 26-year-old Tiffany Burton, of Hillsboro, were charged Wednesday with participating in manufacturing meth in a church. Due to enhanced sentencing guidelines that take into consideration meth lab location, they could each...
Your salary as a forensic scientists will depend on how long you’ve been out of school, experience, whether you’re employed by the state or in a private lab and, of course, the kind of forensics you master (anthropology, pathology, accounting and so on). As of 2008, 580 forensic sci...
The cop who was convicted of killing one wife and suspected of murdering another is piling up legal bills for a different crime: plotting to murder the prosecutor who put him behind bars ... Peterson’s attorney submitted bills to the st...
suddenly and violently exposed. Since the small park had just celebrated its grand reopening just a few months before, after an extensive restoration project, officials decided to put the falls' fate in the hands of nature's will—and not try to return it back to its pre-tornado state. ...
The body discovered in the Illinois River has been identified as Alexsus Nellum, a 24-year-old resident of Peoria Heights. The identification was made possible through fingerprint analysis performed by the Illinois State Police Crime Lab. Coroner Jamie Harwood expressed gratitude for the community's...