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 ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

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 ...

Old-School Hair Analysis Is Junk Science. But It Still Keeps People Behind Bars The technique, developed before DNA testing, can’t definitively tie suspects to crime scenes. Try explaining that to ...

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.

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, ...

For students seeking a career where science serves justice, the MSc Forensic Science Program at the School of Sciences, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), offers not just a degree--but a mission-driven ...