Real crime fighters might not have superpowers, but these tactics are the next best thing.1. STOPPING TERRORISM WITH CUPCAKESBack in 2010, would-be terrorists could download Inspire, a magazine produced by al-Qaeda. The...

Before we had the many tools of forensic science we employ in crime investigation today, it was easier to get away with murder. At the same time, it was easier to be convicted of a crime you didn’t commit. Over the...

Convicted by DNA evidence is nothing new, but this is: David Hilder, 47, was the first person convicted of manslaughter, partly on DNA evidence left by his cat. So forget human DNA database, here comes the brave n...

Trish Vickers of Charmouth, Dorset, England, lost her sight years ago, but continues to write in longhand with a system that keeps her lines straight. During a particularly creative streak, she wrote 26 pages of a novel....

Popular crime-scene shows like CSI and Dexter...  ...ell-educated armchair scientists, but anyone in a forensics lab will tell you that we don't know jack. The fo...

Artist Tom Thomson has been called "Canada's Van Gogh".  His death in 1917 remains Canada's greatest mystery. But there is some new information in the case, thanks to CSI-style forensic analysis. The “truth” eluded...

Hundreds of detectives in Germany spent two years trying to track down a mysterious female serial killer whose DNA was collected at 39 different crime scenes. When no progress was made in the cases, police offered a 300,...

The following is reprinted from Uncle Jo...  ...e crime lab (and perhaps the world's most famous forensics scientist), says that, much to the dismay of the...