Loyola University forensic science students help identify victim in cold case

Loyola University forensic science students help identify victim in cold case

Loyola University Maryland forensic science students recently played a pivotal role in helping identify a woman who died in 1971, bringing a family some closure in one of Howard County’s oldest homicide cold cases.  As interns for the Howard County Police Department, several Loyola students documented and digitized evidence, reevaluated fingerprints from more than 50 years ago, and leveraged genealogy and AI technology. As a result, police were …