MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Forensic experts are working to determine if the shotgun found in Jake Patterson's Gordon, Wisconsin, home was the one used to fatally shoot Jayme Closs' parents. The Bureau of ...

The COTC forensic science program recently got a new comparison microscope. The digital device allows students to examine two items at once. The microscope is one of the ways COTC is updating its ...

Shots rang out across a Phoenix apartment complex one cool desert night last December. A patrolman arrived to investigate. Cleophus Cooksey Jr., 36, answered his knock at the door — covered in blood.

Dust can be used as a metric for residential and building exposure assessment and source characterization (Lioy et al., 2002a). By using forensic techniques that have been developed by criminologists ...

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering firearm and toolmark analysis, the forensic discipline used in the investigation of gun ...

Once that happens, the FSL will become part of a national database of markings on bullets and cartridges recovered from crime scenes. “Once we receive the proposal from the director, FSL, we will take ...

JOHN HOLDEN talks to Dr John O’Shaughnessy from the chemistry section of the Forensic Science Laboratory about five ways chemistry… JOHN HOLDENtalks to Dr John O'Shaughnessy from the chemistry section ...

Shivangi Rao is a Scientific Officer in the Biology/DNA Division at the State Forensic Science Laboratory, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. She is also a Research Scholar in the Department of Forensic Science at ...