Jennifer Smiatacz, a forensic scientist employed by the Michigan State Police, quickly laid to rest any television-fueled illusions about what crime scene investigators do. “I don’t wear red leather ...

Loyola University Maryland's forensic science program is set to expand with $965,000 in federal funding.

For more than 20 years Ruben Miller worked alongside police as a forensic scientist and frontline crime scene investigator, attending homicides, suspicious deaths and major investigations throughout ...

Their classroom is a patch of Morgan County woods inhabited by dead people. Corpses in the ground. Corpses above ground. If they succeed at this 10-week school, open to law enforcement across the ...

This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study will examine the handing of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the United States. It will consider ...

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Outdoor forensic anthropology research laboratories are colloquially called “body farms,” a term that many researchers find too sensational but that has stuck following the 1994 publication of ...

In a couple of months, Samantha Teehee, an eighth-grader at Salem Church Middle School in Chesterfield County, has gone from knowing little about forensic science to being interested in a career in ...

BANGOR, Maine — The science behind a crime — the mystery of how physical evidence fits together to tell a story — is what attracted six Husson University students into the school’s forensic science ...