Rhode Island Crime Laboratory Director Dennis Hilliard sits before the commission that monitors what happens at his lab on Oct. 23, 2024. (Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) Two Rhode Island State ...

CRANSTON − The commission that oversees the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory questioned the lab's director on Wednesday and responded to a sharply written review of the lab's work by a California ...

The killer was identified as Ernest Theodore Gable, who himself was murdered in 1987 at 36 years old. "The convergence of irrefutable DNA evidence, fingerprint analysis, compelling witness testimony, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A new independent report found Rhode Island Crime Lab forensic examiners did not critically compare gun evidence, leading them to inaccurately connect a gun to a 2021 murder ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

Evidence marked by year awaits testing at the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory in this spring 2023 photo. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) Rhode Island’s troubled state crime lab ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A new, draft report by the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) revealed a lack of space in Tennessee’s crime labs has caused significant ...

Boston police have obtained new evidence from old sexual assault evidence collection kits by submitting them for advanced testing, but the promising development has stalled inside the department's ...

The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations released an 81-page report about the state of Tennessee's crime labs. While crime overall has descreased in Tennessee since 2021, ...

A state draft report recommends building a TBI Crime Lab in Chattanooga as one part of the effort to reduce time in examining evidence in criminal cases. For many years, law enforcement officers from ...

Five decades after the murder of a young mother in Concord, New Hampshire, the case will be closed and identified as "solved," according to a state attorney general's report. The 22-year-old woman, ...