Lots of Drugs, Lax Oversight: Former SF Medical Examiner Staffers Say Lab Analyst’s Meth Arrest ‘Just the Tip of the Iceberg’

Mr. Volk is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to poor management and bad forensic policy,” September 21, 2020A lab analyst for the San Francisco medical examiner’s office had driven more than 700 miles east toting a sealed bag of drug evidence...

Arrest made in 40-year-old cold case murder

Detectives got Nash’s DNA from discarded items and it was a match to DNA found through Jones’s autopsy. September 18, 2020FONTANA, CA (KCA/KCBS) — Police on Monday announced the arrest of a Las Vegas man in the 1980 murder of a Fontana teen.According to...

Orem city employee runs crime evidence room that holds history of grim stories

Evidence Room Czar! September 18, 2020For 11 years Tara Calancea has been caring for, recording and storing evidence from Orem’s crime scenes. To her co-workers she is known as the evidence room czar — or better — Czarina.While Calancea, Orem’s evidence...

Suspect Arraigned in 33-year-old Cold Case Homicide

DA was able to close the case involving the murder of 14-year-old Claire Hough, a Rhode Island native who was murdered in 1984 while on vacation in San Diego Enter Article DATE HEREA 57-year-old Poway man has been charged with murder and rape in connection with...

Crews respond to hazmat emergency at Renton City Hall

employee there had possibly been exposed to some kind of powerful drug Enter Article DATE HERERENTON, Wash. – Hazardous materials teams and medics converged on Renton City Hall on Tuesday morning after receiving reports that an employee there had possibly...

Former Trooper arrested for stealing evidence

The Alaska Bureau of Investigations stepped in to audit the evidence facility and found that five items, with a total value of $20,000, had gone missing. August 24, 2020ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Former Trooper Sgt. Jeremy Stone has been arrested on charges of...