A woman’s body is found in London. DNA turns up a hit, yet the suspect apparently died weeks before the alleged victim. Here, forensic scientist Dr Mike Silverman tells the story of on... Read more
The government’s failure to set up new forensic labs and insufficient trained manpower is causing significant delay in criminal investigations. Today, the country has only 25 forensic labs w... Read more
The New York City medical examiner’s office said Thursday that it had discovered more than 50 cases in which it failed to upload critical DNA evidence samples from crime scenes to the state’... Read more
The state has tapped the director of the Massachusetts forensic laboratory to run Connecticut’s troubled crime lab, which has struggled under one of the country’s biggest backlog... Read more
Police are pegging their hopes on forensic reports to help unravel the mystery around the death of model-actress Bidushi Dash Barde and to reinforce the probes in the Bandra rape-robbery and... Read more
ALLEGED wide-scale corruption and theft at the country’s leading police forensic science laboratory is leading to massive backlogs in the finalisation of horrific crimes, including sex... Read more
The national analytical laboratory has suspended testing of DNA because of a lack of reagents — a development that will further frustrate the quest for justice, one of the reasons testing wa... Read more
Wednesday, the nation was peppered with breathless, if thinly sourced, reports of a shocking link between two very different, seemingly unrelated crimes: a match between DNA samples lifted f... Read more
One of Nova Scotia’s top public safety officers has been in Ottawa the past two days to determine the ramifications of the pending closure of the RCMP forensic lab in Halifax. Robert Purcell... Read more
A vial purportedly containing dried blood from former President Ronald Reagan after a 1981 assassination attempt will not be auctioned online, but donated to Reagan’s presidential foun... Read more