Forensic Science

May 15, 1989, 83-year-old Modine Wise was found naked and beaten in her home. The perpetrator left evidence…

Complex arrays of microphones are often used by law enforcement and the military to help quickly pinpoint where the…

Back in July, Egyptian archaeologists dared to open a strange granite sarcophagus, finding three skeletons soaking…

There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about the court-martial at the Fort Huachuca military base in Arizona at…

Police in Wales managed to arrest and convict a drug dealer by identifying his fingerprint from a photo posted on…

Forensic science is only science-magic on shows like CSI, where blood drops quickly reveal the patterns of a killer…

Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, and we’ve been wondering about her…

Following the brutal Whitechapel murders of 1888, London police and media outlets were deluged with letters claiming…

Deer are generally considered one of the more benign creatures of the forest, going about their herbivorous ways in…

In 1912 forensics was still in its infancy when a pretty girl was found dead in her parent’s parlour. Her boyfriend…

There’s a basic test used to identify bodily secretions at crime scenes. It’s not the only test, but it is useful in…

Why bother with fiction when you can be horrified by everyday life? We’ve found a paper about how to locate bodies…

Set design’s loss may be criminal justice’s gain. A new technology may eventually replace luminol in detecting…

It was an unbelievably monstrous crime: a three-year-old who was in the hospital recovering from pneumonia was…

This historical mystery is not a “whodunnit.” It’s more of an “ifdunnit.” In 1908 the emperor of China died a very…

A little less than a year ago, researchers announced a new technique that used DNA analysis to recreate the image of…

The results of a new study suggest forensic scientists could one day use the microbial signature of people's…

Fingerprints have been used as a unique identifier for over 100 years — and chances are you've had your fingerprints…

If the Crystal Head Vodka bottles were modeled on a real skull, what would the person have looked like when he or…

Talk about a scene right out of Blade Runner: By zooming in on high-resolution photographs of faces, researchers…