The lessons of the FBI failures in microscopic hair and bloodstain pattern analyses are clear.

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

Steven Avery’s former lawyer Jerome Buting holds up evidence in footage from Netflix’s Making a Murderer. Photo: Netflix All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of ...

As the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance continues with no suspect publicly identified and challenges with DNA evidence, experts may turn to digital forensics. Subscribe to read this ...

Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, delays in forensic testing are stalling prosecutions, stretching court ...

Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded, lack a scientific foundation, and are compromised by critical delays in analyzing physical evidence, according to a broad study of ...

James M. Adcock has decades of experience investigating homicide and cold cases. From his home in rural Minnesota, he's ...

Forensic scientists both help solve crimes and aid in exonerating innocent people. They use scientific methods to analyze crime scene evidence and write reports to law enforcement explaining what that ...

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The concept of digital forensics was originally spawned by law enforcement agencies, which started to realise that traditional forensics techniques, where the focus was on physical evidence such as ...

On Tuesday, high school students fanned out across the woods in New Rochelle to investigate mock crime scenes-everything from ...