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The Murder of Mia Zapata

As the front woman for Seattle-based rock band The Gits, Mia Zapata was building herself a promising career before she was killed on July 7, 1993. Her killer would walk free for ten years before finally being linked to her brutal murder.

Justice for Julio Ramirez

At around 7:00 p.m. on April 20, 2022, Julio Ramirez and his friend Carlos Camacho went out for the night in Hell’s Kitchen, a Manhattan neighborhood in New York City. The pair visited several bars before ending their night at the Ritz Bar and Lounge. Later that night, outside the bar, Ramirez would enter a cab with three unidentified men, and an hour later he would be found “unresponsive” in the back of the cab.

Are Fingerprints Really Reliable?

If you're like me and love a good murder-mystery show, you know that fingerprints are like the holy grail in murder investigations. Once forensics finds a clean set of prints, the mystery is solved and the culprit caught. But, how exactly does fingerprint analysis work, and is it as reliable as they say?