A forensic scientist’s conclusions in the case of a man accused of murdering two teenage girls 37 years ago are “misguided, unjustified and positively misleading”, a court... Read more
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
A malfunction in a DNA processing machine led to the scrambling of samples from 11 Denver police burglary cases, officials acknowledged Friday. It took more than two years for the department... Read more
The crime lab technician mislabeled samples, using “the victim’s name instead of suspect’s name,” her evaluation said. Her supervisors disqualified her from testifying in court becaus... 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
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
Defense attorneys fear wrongful convictions, confusion from juries when statistical probabilities of 'match' aren't rare Read more