Computer Forensics - Computer holds a clue, this lab will find it

If a computer holds a clue, this lab will find it $4 million investment cracks big cases

By TONY RIZZO
The Kansas City Star

What's the best way to get into a criminal's head? One group of area sleuths knows: Get into their computers.

That's what the men and women assigned to the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory do every day in their high-tech search for evidence of crimes. The partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies was one of the first of its kind in the country. After two years of operation, it can boast of helping crack some of the region's most infamous recent crimes."

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