Forensic science

Also, a nearly 40-year-old cold case of an infant death in Wichita Falls has been resolved after Tammy Sue Kearns, age 58, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of her newborn son in August 1988.

U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould stated in a press release about the case, Quote, Forensic genealogy shattered the silence surrounding this crime and revealed the truth the defendant hid for nearly 40 years.

She deliberately and maliciously murdered her newborn baby.

According to federal court documents, a newborn baby boy was found on August 4, 1988 in a laundry bin at Ponds Laundry in Wichita Falls, wrapped in linens from the Air Force Regional Hospital at Shepherd Air Force Base.

No one speaks for a long time after.

Forensics, once content to rub with stamp closure, now move methodically.

The Allen house has been kept empty by Angela's request, the garden overgrown, papers stacking up by the door.

In the kitchen, near the back entry, a muddy blueprint, a partial impression, men's size with a wavering tread.

He never entered school grounds.

Then, on Thursday, a breakthrough.

Forensics reports that the paper used in both his backhand-you-can't-run notes is a rare stock sold only at one specialty retailer in Columbus.

Credit card records eventually pried loose after calls from Angela and local pressure show two purchases by Mark Healy, both within weeks of Rose's first reported fears.

Her close friends, family members, and maybe employees at the Mount Pleasant Retirement Center where she used to live.

And even better, Forensic's team collected blood samples from the crawlspace.

Some had come from Barbara, and they also found DNA from an unknown man.

He didn't match anyone else in their database, so he definitely didn't have a prior criminal record, but the officers knew this was their murderer.

I started watching, like, Dr. Michael Baden and Autopsy: How to Solve Crimes.

I created a course, Criminology and Criminalistics, where I would teach them fingerprint analysis, bloodstain pattern analysis, forensic entomology, and I would stay one chapter ahead of them as I built this course.

It's now a four-year curriculum in the state of Georgia, and they, they, they won awards, and they've done things.

Wow.

Not by the DA's office, not by the FBI, and not by the family's own experts, allegedly.

On July 15th, Nolan's parents sat down with Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McGrath and agreed to a joint forensic examination.

The plan was specific.

The digital forensic lab at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College would handle it.

The family's independent pathologist, Dr. Roger Mitchell, returned the finding of undetermined.

We already heard about that.

He couldn't rule out non-accidental factors, but the remains weren't in a suitable condition for a complete forensic examination.

The grand jury referral was confirmed.

Following the success of the Bur Oak case, Von Konradt was consulted on a handful of other investigations.

However, the data presented in that 2025 Forensic Sciences research review study is staggering in its implications.

I read the specific statistic they highlighted, and I had to read it twice to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding the timeframe.

It's shocking.

And we'll find out soon if a team of ANU researchers score a gong in Australia's most prestigious science awards.

They're up for the Eureka Prize in Forensic Science for achieving world first detections of dangerous drugs by analysing samples given to Canberra's pill testing service.

Winners will be announced in Sydney tonight.

And that's the latest in news.

And he ended up doing his research, and he found a school down in Miami that was a law enforcement school.

It was a magnet school, Law Enforcement Officers Memorial High School, and it had three different strands, Homeland Security, Forensic Science, and Law Studies.

And once you graduate high school, you graduate with a certification from whichever strand you study.

So if I didn't pursue track or have anything planned out of high school, I could have been a dispatcher straight out of high school.