Can you believe what you’re seeing? Personal identification of suspects is a major crime fighting tool. Scientists will soon be able to identify your hair color from your DNA, so all criminals will have to immediately use hair dye or wear a wig.
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You can’t convict a killer without a body, and now scientists have discovered a new way to locate hidden graves. They’re also using CSI techniques to determine if ancient peoples wore plaid (or its equivalent).

Experts have discovered almost 500 compounds that dogs can smell that are specifically linked to buried corpses. In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi quotes forensic anthropologist Arpad Vass as saying, “The faster you can find graves, the more evidence you can recover.”
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