Forensic science is constantly evolving. And that’s good, because as techniques are refined and technology improves, investigators have better chances to solve crimes that might have gone unsolved in ...

Forensic anthropological (the study of skeletonized remains in medico-legal settings) analyses and reports include diverse information that may help in establishing identifications, cause or manner of ...

Digital forensics is the forensic science encompassing the recovery, analysis and presentation of electronically stored information (ESI). The results of a forensic analysis are often provided in the ...

How can it be determined whether a person has died by suicide or homicide—an assessment that is key to the legal process? A new thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows how forensic medicine can ...

Researchers have a new strategy that could speed up cold case investigations. Solving crimes with forensic genetic genealogy is slow and complicated. The researchers’ new mathematical analysis could ...

New research reveals an innovative wildlife forensics method that uses advanced genetic tools and local DNA databases to help authorities solve complex environmental crimes involving multiple species.

Like millions of people around the world, we’ve found ourselves drawn to the Depp v. Heard trial. As forensic psychiatrists, we’ve had a professional interest as well as a pop culture interest, since ...

The inaugural cohort of the University’s forensic genetic genealogy certificate program helped give a name to a woman who had been unidentified since 2017. Karen McDermott recently completed an ...

In a Hartford courtroom on Tuesday morning, prosecutors will begin presenting evidence in a case that went cold for years — a double homicide in the city's North End in 2016. The state will argue its ...

In 1964, 1-day-old Paul Fronczak was kidnapped from the Chicago hospital where he was born. In 1965, the FBI believed they had found him abandoned in a shopping mall and returned him to his parents.