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Joyce Gilchrist (January 11, 1948 – June 14, 2015) [1] was an American forensic chemist who was accused of falsifying evidence in order to help prosecutors in Oklahoma. She participated in more than 3,000 criminal cases in 21 years while working for the Oklahoma City Police Department. [2][3][4] Her evidence led in part to 23 people being ...
With no witnesses to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, DNA evidence in the O. J. Simpson murder case was the key physical proof used by the prosecution to link O. J. Simpson to the crime. Over nine weeks of testimony, 108 exhibits of DNA evidence, including 61 drops of blood, were presented at trial.
Alec Jeffreys. Sir Alec John Jeffreys, CH FRS MAE [ 7 ] (born 9 January 1950) [ 6 ] is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes. [ 5 ][ 8 ][ 9 ]
Founder. Jeffrey Glassberg. Lifecodes, formerly known as ACTAGEN [1] (Advanced Clinical Testing And Genetics), was a company founded in 1982 that throughout a 10-year period dominated the DNA fingerprinting scene. The company worked closely with prosecutors in order to provide DNA evidence for trials. [2] Through the case of People v.
DNA profiling is a forensictechnique in criminal investigations, comparing criminal suspects' profiles to DNA evidence so as to assess the likelihood of their involvement in the crime. [1][2]It is also used in paternity testing,[3]to establish immigration eligibility,[4]and in genealogicaland medical research.
In 2003, the National Institute of Justice began funding major efforts to maximize the use of DNA technology in the U.S. criminal justice system, including in the investigation of missing and unidentified person cases. By 2005, the institute expanded its efforts with the “Identifying the Missing Summit”, where criminal justice practitioners ...
Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (born April 25, 1955) is an American forensic scientist, genealogist and entrepreneur. She helped identify remains found at the crash site of Northwest Flight 4422, that crashed in Alaska in 1948, and co-founded the DNA Doe Project which identifies previously unidentified bodies and runs Identifinders International, an investigative genetic genealogy consulting firm ...
Alec Jeffreys is known as the "founding father of DNA identification”. [11] He invented DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s to assist in the process of body identification. [11] Since then, the method of DNA typing in forensic science has advanced and many techniques to identify microRNA markers in bodily fluids have developed. [21]