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For many people forensics sounds like a fascinating subject. Just consider the success that every TV serial, movie or fiction and non-fiction books about forensics are having lately. However, few people think about forensics as a serious alternative when choosing a career. But why not? Perhaps there is the idea that you need to be […]

New findings in Madeleine’s case bring unexpected results, this time complicating the McCanns’ position. A team of police ’sniffer’ dogs found suspicious traces of odour in the keys of a rental car that had been used by the McCanns a few weeks after Madeleine vanished.
British news sources commented that Portuguese police thinks this evidence may […]

Forensic DNA studies are a fundamental piece in helping crime investigations, but it is rarely realized that obtaining a DNA profile to be used in a court trial is the finalization of a long and difficult process involving the collection and careful process of items that may carry useful evidence. The initial collection and management […]

A series of tests were done on various samples taken in relation with 4 years old Madeleine McCann, who dissappeared last 3rd of May in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Foresic experts produced a number of genetic profiles taken from evidence seized from the McCanns’ holiday hotel room to be compared with the genetic profiles from […]

Portuguese Police already has gotten the first results of the DNA tests that will be contrasted with the suspects. Four years old Madeleine McCann was kidnapped two weeks ago in a hotel located in Algarve, Portugal.
The genetic profiles obtained within the framework of the investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the 4 years old […]

In December, 2003, the town of City Bell, in Buenos Aires Province (Argentina) was shocked by a severe fire in the house of the 69 years-old carpenter Carlos Wagner. After a difficult fight against the flames, the firemen found the carbonized body of the house’s owner. The autopsy revealed that its death had not been […]