By Mason’s Access to Excellence Podcast Forensic research on human donors is not for the faint of heart, Mary Ellen O’Toole, director of the Forensic Science Program in George…
Podcast – Ep 55: Where the bodies are buried
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Director’s Blog: December 2023
I am delighted to join the CINA team as director effective December 11, and I am excited to build on the center’s achievements under my predecessors, Jim Jones and Anthony…
Prosecutors: Nurse admitted to trying to kill 19 patients
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Pennsylvania nurse Heather Pressdee is facing additional charges after prosecutors say she admitted to trying to kill 19 patients, according to the state’s attorney general. CNN’s Jim Acosta talks to former…
A former FBI profiler explains how ‘leakage’ can warn of a mass shooting
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By Kai McNamee, Kathryn Fox, Juana Summers NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI profiler, about the warning signs before a mass shooting. Listen Here
CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Nick Nikiforakis: “Bridgespotting: How Web3 Attackers Target Web2 Cryptocurrency Users”
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Watch the CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Nick Nikiforakis, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University as he discusses “Bridgespotting: How Web3 Attackers Target Web2…
Search underway for Maine mass shootings person of interest, police say
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By CBS News Authorities are attempting to locate 40-year-old Robert R. Card as a person of interest in the deadly Maine mass shootings, the Lewiston Police Department said in a…
California Ranks 36 Among Safest States in America
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By Cindy Uken What states made 2023’s Safest States in America list? With more than 34,000 Americans having died from gun violence this year and the country having experienced $24…
Virginia professor, former FBI profiler, recalls impressions of Natalee Holloway’s killer
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by: Chris Horne MANASSAS, Va. (WAVY) — Mary Ellen O’Toole remembers something familiar about Joran van der Sloot. Long the only suspect in the 2005 death of Natalee Holloway on Aruba,…
Beeline to bodies: George Mason research getting ready to take flight to aid murder investigations
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MANASSAS, Va. (WAVY) — Walk into the woods next to the Science and Technology campus of George Mason University and you’ll see a four-acre plot enclosed in a chain link…
Curbing pedestrian stops might not reduce police-civilian encounters
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By Sujata Gupta Any encounter between police and civilians has the potential to go awry (SN: 11/17/21). Stop and frisk, where police pat down pedestrians suspected of carrying contraband, can be particularly…