January 2014
NBC Chicago: SERI consults regarding wrongful conviction.
SERI provided consultation regarding the original wrongful conviction of Larry Gillard, demonstrating the Chicago lab should have excluded Gillard when they first tested the evidence. This information helped Gillard secure a settlement in a wrongful [...]
November 2012
Davis Enterprise: Richard Joseph Hirschfield found guilty of sweetheart murders.
Defense counsel for David Hunt and his cohorts enlisted SERI to examine evidence in this cold case. Read the full Davis Enterprise article about the case here.
July 2012
Los Angeles Times: SERI matches DNA to suspect Robin Kyu Cho.
SERI was able to match DNA from evidence found at the scene to suspect Robin Kyu Cho, providing a critical piece of evidence for the Los Angeles District Attorney. Read the full Los Angeles [...]
May 2012
Los Angeles Times: SERI recovers DNA from a years-old bite mark.
"Investigators stuck to their early theory that Rasmussen must have been killed by unidentified Latino male suspects during a botched burglary. That theory eventually would be proven wrong by DNA in a saliva sample gathered [...]
August 2011
New York Times: West Memphis Three are freed thanks in part to SERI DNA testing.
SERI provided mitochondrial and Y-STR DNA testing on a wide collection of items to support the defense's work to free the wrongfully convicted "West Memphis Three." This case was the subject of the HBO documentary [...]
April 2009
Chicago Tribune: Brian Wraxall thinks prosecution’s explanation is “a leap.”
"An expert from California acknowledged it was 'a possibility' that he was unable to develop a DNA profile from sperm found in Holly because it may have been there for more than four days. Later, [...]
November 2008
Chicago Tribune: Brian Wraxall says prosecutors are in denial.
"Brian Wraxall, the forensic scientist who did the testing at his California lab, said the prosecutors are in denial if they say there was no evidence of sexual assault."
October 2007
Visalia Times-Delta: SERI develops a DNA profile for CODIS; years later it his to a man who mooned police.
"The crime was unsolved until he exposed his bare buttocks years later and a DNA sample collected by officers linked him to the rape."
November 2006
Chicago Tribune: Prisoner Freed After 20 Years with the Help of SERI
Chief Forensic Serologist, Brian Wraxall, is able to develop a profile which helps exonerate Marlon Pendleton.
October 2006
A Slew of Suspects But Only One is the Killer
Fifty-eight pieces of evidence and many suspects later, DNA evidence SERI analyzed links to an already deceased Folsom State Prison inmate.
April 2006
Arizona Daily Star: Brian Wraxall disagrees with other expert witnesses about DNA statistics.
"Brian Wraxall, executive director of the Serological Research Institute, was called to the stand Tuesday afternoon to testify on behalf of murder suspect Dr. Bradley Schwartz." "Wraxall told jurors that while he doesn't quibble with [...]
May 2005
Santa Maria Times: Tom Fedor testifies about DNA from a zipper.
"Tom Fedor of Serological Research Institute in Richmond testified a week and a half ago that DNA belonging to Noreiga, Martinez and Savanna could not be ruled out from biological evidence found on a zipper [...]