New Detroit Programs Revolutionizes Rape Kit Testing
Forensics programs across the country deal with massive backlogs of untested rape kits on a regular basis. The city of Detroit was found to have a massive deficit of nearly 8,700 kits with some dating...
View ArticleSummer Forensics Program Takes Off at Alaska High School
Some high school students spend their summers working on their tan and relaxing with friends – anything but thinking about the start of the next semester or the looming specter of college. Students...
View ArticleFingerprint Alterations Present Unique Challenge to Investigators
Law enforcement agencies have been using techniques to record and identify fingerprints for many years, with records going back almost a century available to crime scene investigators. However,...
View ArticleCrime Scene Photos Live on As Art Exhibition
Crime Scene Photographers have been an integral part of criminal investigations since photographies earliest days. For the better part of a century, photographers have been combing through crime scenes...
View ArticleNew Technology Changing the Way DNA is Analyzed in Hair
Technology used to evaluate and identify DNA recovered from crime scenes has led to countless arrests and convictions since the very first DNA based conviction in the 1987 trial of Florida rapist...
View ArticleCrime Scene Dioramas Revolutionized the Science of Crime Scene Investigation
Crime scene investigation was in its infancy during the early 1900s. Investigators sometimes walked through pools of blood and even moved bodies around. Coroners had little training and sometimes...
View ArticleCSI’s use 3D Laser Technology to Save Time, Record Evidence, and Protect...
It’s been shown in movies and television for years. The grizzled, leather jacket wearing detective walks into an empty room and activates a small cube or speaks a command phrase. Then blood, weapons,...
View Article3D Scanners are Changing the Way Crime Scenes are Being Recorded
A proliferation of new and exciting technology over the past decade has worked wonders for crime scene investigators. Advancements in the analysis of everything from shell casings to hair follicles...
View ArticleReal Crime Scene Investigation is More Difficult Than CSI Might Have You Believe
The popularity of the show CSI has never been more apparent than it was this week as its fans gathered to watch the series finale and say goodbye to the original crime solving drama. However, its...
View ArticleNew DNA Software Makes it Easier to Find DNA Matches While Avoiding False...
On the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the smallest pieces of evidence seem to unlock the entire case in under an hour. However, in real life, DNA forensics is much messier and more complicated...
View ArticleHigh School Program Pushes Students to Enter the Medical Field Through Crime...
New Palestine High School in Greenfield, Indiana was searching for ways to better engage students who wanted to enter the medical field. They surveyed their students and found that many wanted to...
View ArticleMiddle School Students Get Hands-On Learning through Fictional Crime Scene...
In order to teach students more about the judicial system and how investigating crime scenes works, New Ellenton Middle School in South Carolina hosted its first school-wide project as a STEAM...
View ArticleInvestigators Uncover the Heartbreaking Truth About Fallen Officer
A few months ago, a Chicago police officer’s life came to an abrupt end. Minutes before his death, Joseph Gliniewicz radioed that he was pursuing three suspicious men in a northern suburb of Chicago....
View ArticleBay Area Crime Scene Investigators Get a Glimpse Into the Future
The FARO Technologies 3-D scanner has been instrumental in detailing evidence for from crime scenes used to find perpetrators and secure a conviction. This revolutionary technology permits...
View ArticleCSI’s Fight Ivory, Help National Security Across the Continent
Elephants play a larger role in the national security and stability of countries in Africa than most realize. Elephants are an integral part of the forest ecosystem, and when they are driven out...
View ArticleMSU Inherits Super Glue Chamber From Local Crime Lab
Last week the Columbus Police Department Crime Lab gifted Mississippi State University with a super glue chamber to be used as an educational device for its forensics program. A super glue chamber is a...
View ArticleConference Provides a Look into a “Real” Crime Scene
Imagine walking into a deserted building and finding shotgun shells scattered at your feet. The only other evidence is a single footprint of blood. This is a scenario that students at the University of...
View ArticleWallace State CSI Team Brings Home the Silver at 52nd Annual SkillsUSA...
Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama took home the silver medal in the 52nd annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference. This is the second year Wallace State has taken...
View ArticleGifted Middle and High School Students Experience CSI Firsthand at Ole Miss
A group of 38 students spent a week of their summer at the University of Mississippi learning about crime scene investigation. The class consisted of gifted students in grades 7th through 12th from...
View ArticleNew Protein Sequencing May One Day Replace DNA in Crime Scene Investigation
DNA has been used in solving crimes by comparing a DNA sample from a suspect with DNA found at the scene of a crime and has been the primary decider in suspect identification for years. Now, a study is...
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