In June of 1892, Ponciano Caraballo found his 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter dead, their throats slit, at their home in Argentina. His wife's throat was also slit, but she survived to tell the tale. Or two.Franci...

At least one sneaker containing a human foot washe...  ...lot of corpses in these waters. Kathy Taylor, a forensic anthropologist at the King County Medical Examin...

In 2005, a mummy like no other was found in northe...  ...ications, but they’re now proving useful in forensic investigations and in cultural heritage projects...  ...er the scanned data were entered into a computer, forensic experts began to rebuild the Señora’...

Arsenic has been the go-to poison for people wanti...  ...ure, it was too late.A back-and-forth festival of forensic testing ensued: local scientists first analyzed t...  ...le in court.At the time, people were skeptical of forensic scientists, particularly when a defendant's life...  ...ned at that trial, and h...

Wearing gloves while examining a crime scene seems like a no-brainer to us, because we watch CSI and other acronym shows that follow modern police procedures. Anything you carry on your hands might contaminate evidence....

Over 5,000 years ago, a man walking in the Alps wa...  ...ery modern murder investigation relies heavily on forensic science , but in Ötzi’s case, the techniques ha...  ...found at the crime site, 10,500 feet up.From the forensic evidence, Horn and his team were about to piece t...

Wilmer Souder was a farm boy from southern Indiana...  ...ped pioneer some of the techniques used in modern forensics in America.He used a recently invented microscope...  ...the same gun. He advised the founder of the FBI's forensic lab. For the Lindbergh case, he analyzed the hand...

Forensic science has a few tricks up its sleeve that we would neve...

Image sourceIf ghosts existed, particularly angry...  ...eir lives ended, I imagine they'd be huge fans of forensic science . It's easy to picture ghostly victims of murder a...  ...of old that have been clarified thanks to modern forensic testing here.

Forensic science has come a long way in solving crimes, although m...