AAFS (American Academy of Forensic Sciences) Meeting Baltimore 2025

What a meeting: Special Guests were The Innocence Procect with Marvin Anderson, my former boss Mecki Prinz, now at John Jay College for criminal justice, my former OCME NYC forensic biology colleagues Amrita Lal and Brian Gestring (who worked for the NYPD for quite a while, too), the USPS, the B&O Railroad Hotel 🚂 and Edgar Allan Poe 🪦

Please check my video channels for more (see below)

Ein fantastisches, forensisches Treffen in den USA Unten in den Videos ist vieles auch auf deutsch zu sehen und zu hören.

→ Baltimore

→ AAFS 2025

→ Edgar Allan Poe

Mind Your Decompositional Assumptions

Decompositional processes depend on temperature, humidity, and light, as well as on animals that can access the body. In low-level cases, suicides, or cases of self-neglect especially, these factors are not always taken into consideration because a full investigation may not have taken place.

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A routine rape case that became tricky (and educational)

After attending this presentation, attendees will understand why it is important to listen to the victim and relatives, who do not fully understand the objective DNA evidence, but who point in a relevant direction relating to procedural failures of police and crime labs.

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