Evaluation of suspected drug-facilitated sexual assault cases in the city of Houston from 2014 to 2020.

Drug-facilitated sexual assault is a form of sexual violence against an individual incapacitated by alcohol and/or drugs consumed voluntarily or covertly administered. The purpose of this study was to evaluate toxicological results and the associated demographics of sexual assault-related cases submitted to Houston Forensic Science Center from 2014 to 2020. In total, 1240 samples (1230 cases) were tested during the six-year period that consisted of blood, urine, or both specimens.

Recovery of oxygenated ignitable liquids by zeolites, Part II: Dual-mode heated passive headspace extraction.

Previous studies performed by our research group have suggested that zeolites are a suitable adsorbent for the recovery of oxygenates from fire debris through heated passive headspace extraction. Zeolite 13X, in particular, has been shown to be effective for recovering analytes with molecular diameters smaller than 10Å. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the addition of zeolite 13X to heated headspace extraction for the recovery of ignitable liquids.