The popularity of the show CSI has never been more apparent than it was this week as its fans gathered to watch the series finale and say goodbye to the original crime solving drama. However, its legacy lives on in …
A proliferation of new and exciting technology over the past decade has worked wonders for crime scene investigators. Advancements in the analysis of everything from shell casings to hair follicles have helped investigators to quickly and efficiently solve crimes with …
It’s been shown in movies and television for years. The grizzled, leather jacket wearing detective walks into an empty room and activates a small cube or speaks a command phrase. Then blood, weapons, and a wrecked apartment appear in what …
Crime scene investigation was in its infancy during the early 1900s. Investigators sometimes walked through pools of blood and even moved bodies around. Coroners had little training and sometimes didn’t even have medical degrees. This type of behavior drew the …
Technology used to evaluate and identify DNA recovered from crime scenes has led to countless arrests and convictions since the very first DNA based conviction in the 1987 trial of Florida rapist Tommie Lee Andrews. Since then, the technology has …
Crime Scene Photographers have been an integral part of criminal investigations since photographies earliest days. For the better part of a century, photographers have been combing through crime scenes and trying to capture every angle in the hopes of apprehending criminals. …
Law enforcement agencies have been using techniques to record and identify fingerprints for many years, with records going back almost a century available to crime scene investigators. However, individuals hoping to avoid identification based on their fingerprints and to mislead …
Some high school students spend their summers working on their tan and relaxing with friends – anything but thinking about the start of the next semester or the looming specter of college. Students from Burchell High School in Southern Alaska …
Forensics programs across the country deal with massive backlogs of untested rape kits on a regular basis. The city of Detroit was found to have a massive deficit of nearly 8,700 kits with some dating back over 30 years. However, …