Among other tasks, forensic artists take a verbal description from a witness...  ...ularly specific job. Mental Floss talked to three forensic artists (one we've featured here before) to get s...  ...PPRESS THEIR CREATIVITY.It's easy to imagine that forensic artists might remain...

Robert Kennicott was a well-liked and respected yo...  ...the idea that he had committed suicide. In 2001, forensic anthropologist Kari Bruwelheide and the museum&rs...

We love to read whodunits and watch crime procedur...  ...y to figure out the crime before the cops and the forensic scientists do. At least, that’s what we wan...

Forensic BotanistIn 1932, Bruno Hauptmann propped a homema...  ...th-old son. When Hauptmann was brought to court, forensic botany helped lock him away. Arthur Koehler, a wo...  ...rimes in front of your ficus. It’s a snitch. Forensic LinguistFrom pronunciations and misspel...

(Image credit: Rob Culpepper)Once a month, in an e...  ...last November, law enforcement professionals and forensic scientists crowded into a dining room at the Unio...  ...lving organization founded in 1990 by a group of forensics specialists. Well-known in law enforcement circle...  ...a. Walter was a respecte...

(Image credit: Jared Ceruse)There's only one lab e...  ...rtland, the National Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory is the world’s only research fa...  ...quo;s only research facility dedicated to animal forensics . Investigators here have pioneered innovative te...  ...retary, and we&rsquo...

A "body farm" is a facility for research on decomp...  ...L. Jantz, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennesse...

If scientists and police investigators can reconstruct a face from a skull, why can't we figure out what Skeletor looked like before he was a skeleton? David at Ironic Sans went to work, or to be accurate, his wife d...