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Recapping ISHI 30 with our Student Ambassadors
Dec 19 2019
The 30th International Symposium on Human Identification Keynote Speaker, Paul Holes, related the chilling story of the case that dogged him for over 20 years—the notorious ...
Identifying the Golden State Killer: An Interview with Paul Holes and Barbara Rae-Venter
Dec 12 2019
In April of 2018, news broke that the elusive Golden State Killer had been identified through a new technique called genetic genealogy (or investigative genealogy). In just 4 ...
Beyond Genetic Genealogy: Building Family Trees to Investigate Crime
Dec 03 2019
“Class! Class!” Diahan Southard raises her voice and claps twice, cutting through the buzz of conversation that fills the room. Dutifully, her class responds. “Ye...
Fall Edition of The ISHI Report Now Live
Nov 19 2019
The Fall edition of The ISHI Report is now live! We hope that many of you were able to participate in the 30th International Symposium on Human Identification that took place ...
Using Isotopes to Tell the Stories of the Unidentified
Nov 04 2019
According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States each year. While many are quickly found, it is e...
Fun Facts from ISHI 30
Oct 08 2019
The 30th International Symposium on Human Identification was one of the largest yet, with approximately 1,000 attendees! Here are some other fun facts about the meeting as wel...
The 30th International Symposium on Human Identification: Elevating DNA Forensics
Oct 01 2019
In the fall of 1989, a small group of forensic scientists, law enforcement officials and representatives from Promega Corporation gathered in Madison, Wisconsin, for the very ...
Genetic Genealogy – What Does the Future Hold?
Sep 05 2019
Across the United States, and increasingly internationally, detectives are closing cases that have long since grown cold using investigative genealogy. Killers and other preda...
Under the Microscope – Nicole Novroski
Aug 28 2019
De-convolution of complex mixtures can be challenging. Various improvements in polymerase chain reaction coupled with capillary electrophoresis (PCR-CE) and massively parallel...