Tag: Forensics

Editor's Note: This is an expanded version of the article that appeared in the print version of Law Officer magazine.

AUSTIN, TX--For 15 years, Evangeline Barefoot, a sexual assault nurse examiner in Williamson County, has had to collect evidence with 80-year-old technology invented for detecting cervical cancer. But Barefoot and ...

Recently a Department of Child Services (DCS) caseworker and I attempted to interview a young girl. We both knew the child was probably too young to be put on the ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The 911 call received from the cell phone of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student slain last month may contain additional evidence that hasn't been explored yet, which ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif.-- Investigators and scientists went to Charles Manson's last hideout to hunt for clandestine graves that could contain other possible victims. The closest thing they found ...

PANAMINT SPRINGS, Calif. -- Spooky rumors have persisted for decades that there are clandestine graves at a secluded ranch used as a hide-out by the Charles Manson clan after a ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The .40-caliber Glock handgun stolen from a sheriff's deputy claimed the lives of four men in three days and left a trail of evidence in ...

WASHINGTON -- Starting next year, adult rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an emergency-room forensic rape exam, and the evidence gathered will be ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Investigators gingerly peeled back the brittle lining of the small caskets buried a century ago in a Forest Park cemetery, revealing the remains of three children -- orange-stained ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Police late last night captured the third suspect in the slaying of police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, beating a self-imposed deadline to nab Eric DeShawn Floyd, 33, before the ...