Many of the "forensic science" methods commonly used in criminal cases and portrayed in popular television crime dramas have never been scientifically validated and may lead to unjust verdicts, ...

Trial judges should be more skeptical of forensic methods that don’t pass scientific muster, a panel of legal experts told judges at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference on Tuesday. SAN FRANCISCO (CN ...

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A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

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ASU's forensics program is seeing steady growth as the program opens up its evidence locker on the Glendale campus to us for an inside look. Assistant Professor Jacob Harris says the explosion of ...

For decades, investigators have treated fired bullets and casings as nearly hopeless surfaces for fingerprints, assuming the blast of heat and pressure wiped away the most telling traces of who pulled ...

In April 2017, a man set out from New York to hike the Appalachian Trail. For 15 months, he made his way south, stopping along the way to socialize with fellow hikers. Then, in July 2018, his dead ...

This means there is a need to develop new analytical techniques to enrich forensic science subfields like toxicology, trace evidence, and chemistry. All of these fields work together to create a ...

A forensic scientist testified in a Riverhead courtroom Wednesday that the scientific methods used to link DNA from degraded hair samples found with the remains of several Gilgo Beach homicide victims ...

Forensic accounting is a rapidly growing field that combines accounting, auditing and investigative skills to detect and prevent financial fraud and misconduct. Notably, forensic accounting has become ...

Microbial forensics is a subfield of forensics that involves the application of scientific techniques to characterize microbial evidence related to an act of bioterrorism, biocrime or the accidental ...