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A former analyst with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation who was accused of cutting corners and bucking testing protocols ...

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More than a year after a woman’s skeletal remains were found in South Jersey, investigators are still trying to determine who she was and how she died. A knife was found near the woman’s skull in a ...

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