You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...
A stunning turnaround occurred on Friday when — after a third alleged occurrence of prosecutorial misconduct — Judge Marlowe Sommer was finally forced to dismiss all criminal charges with prejudice in ...
Of the 4,017 adult sex crime incident reports that had been suspended, the forensic science center reported 1,147 had associated sexual assault kits that were tested for DNA. 76 of those kits found ...
In a Hartford courtroom on Tuesday morning, prosecutors will begin presenting evidence in a case that went cold for years — a double homicide in the city’s North End in 2016. The state will argue its ...
Occasionally, police investigators find themselves announcing archaeological discoveries, rather than criminal findings. In 1984, for example, police oversaw the recovery of the Iron Age bog body (a ...
For more than three decades, DNA has been considered the gold standard of forensic science. It has transformed criminal ...
A team of researchers has developed a radical new technique for analyzing evidence in sexual assault cases. The new approach could streamline the forensics pipeline and reduce delays in the processing ...
Prof Lady Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome – her official title – is one of the world’s leading forensic scientists. As a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropologist, she has identified human ...
Moumita Chaudhuri on the emerging discipline that is forensic science ...
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