On an early Sunday morning, police officers responded to a double homicide scene where witnesses claim the suspect responsible for the homicide is a known thug who lives in the same area and was seen ...

A forensics research project is attempting to determine if pieces of duct tape can be reliably matched, say, in a criminal investigation involving someone who has been bound with duct tape and a ...

Imagine you respond to a call with a crime scene that has a body, a witness, five, spent shell casings and no guns. You speak with the witness who says there was one shooter who took the gun with them ...

Crime scene analyst Matthew Steiner teaches the techniques forensics experts use to determine bullet trajectory in a crime scene, ranging from easy to difficult. Matthew shows how forensic analysts ...

AMES, Iowa – Like fingerprints, a firearm’s discarded shell casings have unique markings. This allows forensic experts to compare casings from a crime scene with those from a suspect’s gun. Finding ...

Anya Lester loaded the weapon with shiny, fresh bullets. Wearing eye and ear protection, she aimed the gun into a cold, coffin-like water tank, took a deep breath and fired. Bam, bam, bam the gun went ...

On February 14, 1929, gunmen working for Al Capone disguised themselves as police officers, entered the warehouse of a competing gang, and shot seven of their rivals dead. The St. Valentine's Day ...

Sirchie's new system for the examination, comparison, capture, annotation, and documentation of evidence: the new FOCOS2 - Dual Camera Forensic Optical Comparison/Examination System. The FOCOS2 system ...

Novaator visited the Estonian Forensic Science Institute (EKEI) to explore how forensic experts work. In the technology department, we toured the underground shooting range, viewed EKEI's firearms ...

Putting forensic science on a sound statistical footing is the aim behind three grants totaling over $2.2 million awarded to the UC Davis program in forensic science by the U.S. Department of Justice.