Students in Santa Maria High School's forensic science classes recently gained hands-on experience with equipment utilized to identify, document, collect and preserve physical evidence at a crime ...
The story of the so-called “worst detective ever” reveals how a single investigator ignored the most fundamental principles ...
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Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...
NPR's Christopher Joyce explains how medical examiners at the Pentagon, the Pennsylvania crash site and in New York are approaching the grim task of matching body parts to identities. Remains from the ...
Peter Neufeld is co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project. Updated March 30, 2015, 6:45 AM Ray Krone was convicted of murder in Phoenix, Ariz., and sentenced to death. The key evidence used ...