Earlier this week, a Texas man was released after spending 30 years in prison. Cornelius Dupree was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in 1980 and sentenced to 75 years. Now, thanks to DNA evidence, he’s been exonerated. Since 2001, that state has freed more than 41 prisoners through the use of DNA evidence. And now, thanks to new breakthroughs, the science is about to become even more accurate.
Scientists at Erasmus University Medical Center in The Netherlands announced this week that they have developed a new test that can detect hair color in samples gathered through blood, semen, and saliva, adding to a list of characteristics that includes age and hair color.
The new evidence can detect black or red hair with 90 percent accuracy and blond or brown hair with 80 percent accuracy, according to the scientists.
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