WASHINGTON (AP) — Kirk Odom was convicted of a 1981 rape and robbery after a woman identified him as her attacker and an FBI specialist testified that hair on her nightgown was similar to hair on Odom ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death row for murder, ...

The accuracy of human hair analysis could be improved with the routine addition of body hair screening. A study published in the International Journal of Molecular Science sought to assess the ...

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A critical piece of evidence could help Rowan County investigators solve the county’s oldest unsolved murder, a 52-year-old case of a baby girl’s killing.

Drugs and fibers are among the materials collected in forensic and criminal laboratories. Some of these samples can be quite small, and light microscopes are frequently employed to examine evidence ...

LAPEER, MI – Kenneth Grondin’s defense attorney asked the state to allow independent forensic testing of human hairs collected during the investigation of the murder of Andrea Eilber in 2011. The ...

Blood spatter analysis, fingerprint analysis, forensic serology and DNA analysis. While these processes are often shown and ...

Forensic science is critical to an effective justice system, which in turn is a pillar of a civil society. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes chemistry as a foundational and integral ...