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FBI Lab Director Dwight Adams, himself a DNA scientist, disclosed the existence of the wider Justice Department inquiry during recent briefings on Capitol Hill, ...
The FBI's lab director, Dr. Dwight E. Adams, said Tuesday that the report "is only going to improve the technology that we currently use." He noted that it recommended that FBI enhance ...
Additional cases of subpar lab work has been uncovered at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner — with questions now being raised about the potential fallout for a 2021 murder case, the Daily News ...
Reformed after controversy in the mid-1990s, the FBI crime lab is dealing with new wrongdoing by employees that has opened the door for challenges of the lab's science in scores of cases involving ...
As any armchair detective knows, a DNA sample is often the key evidence that convicts a murderer by the end of a 60-minute TV crime show. But in real life, it would take two years to clear the growing ...
The FBI laboratory alone tested some 3,600 kits and found they had matches for more than 800 suspects whose DNA profiles were already in the national database known as CODIS.
Problems at the FBI lab first surfaced in the early 1990s, when scientist-turned-whistleblower Fred Whitehurst reported that sloppy work by examiners was producing unreliable forensic testimony.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that Covid likely escaped from a laboratory in China, issuing the first public opinion of the sort from the agency on the origins of the virus that ...
The FBI's new $130 million laboratory complex, wrapped in ribbons of glass and topped with stylized smokestacks, looks something like a cruise ship as it rises out of the Northern Virginia ...
It\u2019s no secret FBI agents have been actively assisting local law enforcement in the Chad and Lori Daybell criminal investigations. ... The lab currently has about 150 active cases, ...
FBI director Christopher Wray on Tuesday spoke publicly for the first time on the bureau's assessment that the COVID-19 virus "most likely" originated from a potential lab incident in Wuhan, China ...
I got a chance to take a behind-the-scenes tour at the FBI lab that helps investigate digital devices for some major cases in Colorado. I took a tour of the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory ...