By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists is believed to be dead following a raid in the Philippines last week, Reuters reports. The FBI collected body matter at the scene of the deadly raid, and a DNA sample shows a strong link to Zulkifli bin Hir. Still, the tests don’t prove…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is beginning to help investigate the disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico, even as evidence recently surfaced that the country’s government may have been involved in rounding up the young people, NBC News reports. The students, who were training to be teachers, vanished on Sept. 26 after protesting…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Awaiting DNA results can be frustrating for law enforcement. But the FBI hopes to change that by expediting the process using the government’s new biometric identification database, Biometric Update reports. The FBI is accelerating the collection of DNA profiles for the Next Generation Identification System. Law enforcement officers will be able…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The brutal killing of five women in the San Francisco Bay Area beginning in 1976 became known as the “Gypsy Hill Murders.” Now the FBI has a person of interest in the unsolved murders because of a cigarette butt recovered from an unrelated crime scene, the New York Daily News reports….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A badge can say a lot about a police officer. In the case of Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella, the badge can help shelf light on whether he assaulted a man, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Rodella, who is facing federal civil rights charges, is accused of striking Michael Tafoya, 26, in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and Justice Department have found serious problems at the bureau’s lab that raise serious questions about the guilt or innocence of several thousand people who have been convicted, the Washington Post reports. The investigation began after the Washington Post exposed flawed evidence two years involving microscopic hair matches. “I don’t…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who spent 26 years in prison in the 1982 slaying of a Washington woman was exonerated following the discovery that the FBI made a critical lab error during the investigation, the Washington Post reports. Kevin Martin, 50, who long maintained his innocence, was cleared following DNA evidence that contradicted FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and New York State authorities have found scores of mistaken DNA profiles in the national database, showing that human error is ever-present, the New York Times reports. The FBI found about 170 profiles with probable errors, ranging from handwriting mistakes to interpretation errors by lab technicians. While the findings represent…
