Trail of blood led to pregnant Joan Canino Ryther’s body in Logan Central street

The Courier Mail David Murray, Kate Kyriacou May 24, 2013

POLICE have confirmed for the first time they believe Joan Ryther was initially attacked at the site where her body was found.
“At this stage the investigation would indicate that the victim was initially assaulted in Leichhardt St,” Detective Superintendent David Hutchinson said outside Logan police station.
He said that after a public appeal yesterday, police had located the person who had moved Ms Ryther’s McDonald’s cap in Leichhardt St.
But police “for elimination purposes” were still looking for a man in a yellow top who turned up at a Logan house asking to come inside on Tuesday night.

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Police continue investigation into pregnant Logan woman’s murder

ABC News 24 May 2013

Police are continuing the hunt for the killer of a young pregnant woman at Logan, south of Brisbane.
The body of Joan Canino Ryther, 27, was found in the front yard of a Woodridge home on Wednesday morning.
Detective Superintendent Dave Hutchinson says she was bashed with a blunt object and raped.

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Logan vigil for murdered Joan

Brisbane Times Marissa Calligeros May 23, 2013

Detectives have retraced the route slain McDonalds worker Joan Canino Ryther would have walked to work on Tuesday night, as her friends and coworkers prepare to hold a vigil in her memory.
The 29-year-old woman would have likely taken a shortcut from her Mayes Avenue home, through a local park, to the fast-food outlet on the corner of Leichhardt Street.
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Conference Alert: Annual International Conference on Forensic Science – Criminalistics Research (FSCR)

9 – 10 December 2013, Singapore

This conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars all over the world to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Forensic Criminalistics.  The conference theme will cover, Criminalistics, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Sciences.

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Neighbours report disturbances on night of murder

Brisbane Times Marissa Calligeros May 23, 2013

A crying man, a person running, a woman yelling in a foreign language.
Logan residents have told police investigating the murder of 29-year-old Joan Canino Ryther of a series of unusual disturbances in the street where the slain McDonald’s worker lived.

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Police review security video as investigation continues into Logan woman’s murder

ABC News 23 May 2013

Detectives are reviewing security video from businesses and homes near the scene of a brutal murder at Logan, south of Brisbane.
A woman, aged in her late 20s, was found partially clothed in the front yard of a home at 7:00am (AEST) yesterday, just a few hundred metres from the fast food restaurant where she worked.

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Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills

(American Chemical Society 15 May 2013) With the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, with an amazing ability to sop up oil. Their report, which includes some of the first scientific data on unprocessed, raw cotton’s use in crude oil spills, appears in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

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WISER for Android 2.0 Now Available

NLM Technical Bulletin 15 May 2013

WISER for Android 2.0 is now available and can be installed directly from the Google Play Store. Here’s a look at what’s new in this release.

WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.

WISER now fully integrates content from the Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) Web site. This integration includes:

• New hospital provider and preparedness planner profiles
• Acute care guidelines for six known mass casualty agents/agent classes
• The addition of a wealth of CHEMM reference material
• CHEMM Intelligent Syndrome Tool (CHEMM-IST), a new help identify tool designed to diagnose the type of chemical exposure after a mass casualty incident

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Tutorials for WISER are available here

Police Union chief fronts Brisbane shooting inquest

ABC News Leonie Mellor May 15, 2013

Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers has told an inquest he does not believe he compromised an investigation into a police shooting death in Brisbane last year.
Jason Protheroe was fatally wounded in the backyard of a Bracken Ridge property in northern Brisbane in April last year.

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Bomb squad destroys “party popper”

Brisbane Times Bridie Jabour 15 May 2013

Police believe a party popper may be behind a bomb scare west of Brisbane.

The bomb squad was called in after a “suspicious device” wrapped in masking tape and with a fishing wire hanging from it was found at a Bunnings Warehouse construction site about 7am in Ipswich on Wednesday.

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