Is handwriting truly individual? UB computer scientists are finding out
...es, like the one left behind in the JonBenetRamsey murder case, and other handwritten documents that provide clues tocriminal cases may soon be easier to analyze, thanks to research being conductedby University at Buffalo computer scientists. Researchers in UB's Center of Excellence for Document Ana...Not working alone at night, outside lights can cut workplace homicides, study shows
...cal Examiner, the team identified all 105 cases of murder on the job in North Carolina between Jan. 1, 1994, and March 31, 1998, and also, as controls, found 210 similar, randomly selected workplaces where homicides had not occurred. Detailed interviews with managers of the businesses, police and others -- ...System failure at heart of child abuse case disasters
...ecent quashing of Sally Clark's conviction for the murder of two of her children and the collapse of the case against Trupti Patel have shaken public confidence. But we need to look less critically at the people caught in the spotlight, and more at the systems failure involved, writes Edmund Hey. Instead, ...BMJ turns missing murder case documents over to FDA
...any documents that went missing from a 10 year old murder case to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for review. The documents, which were sent to the BMJ by an anonymous source, appear to suggest a link between the drug fluoxetine (Prozac), made by Eli Lilly, and suicide attempts and violence. They ...Murder, eyewitness identification and the limits of human vision
Geoffrey Loftus' latest research reads more like a murder mystery than a scientific paper. The University o...logist's new study opens with a savage beating and murder on the streets of Fairbanks, Alaska. It features cameo appearances by Julia Roberts and other celebr...