That’s not a phrase people normally want to hear in a college class. But those words uttered by Amanda Hunt were simply part of a special forensics dig by students in Lance Johnson’s forensics science ...

Jennifer Smiatacz, a forensic scientist employed by the Michigan State Police, quickly laid to rest any television-fueled illusions about what crime scene investigators do. “I don’t wear red leather ...

Crime Scene Technician, Criminalist, Forensic Scientist, Crime Scene Investigator, Evidence Technician, Crime Scene Analyst, Latent Print Examiner, Forensic Science Examiner, Forensic Specialist, ...

MARIETTA — Wheeler High School magnet students stumbled across a murder scene in school last week. However, instead of calling the police, they set out solving the crime themselves, eventually ...

Their classroom is a patch of Morgan County woods inhabited by dead people. Corpses in the ground. Corpses above ground. If they succeed at this 10-week school, open to law enforcement across the ...

Outdoor forensic anthropology research laboratories are colloquially called “body farms,” a term that many researchers find too sensational but that has stuck following the 1994 publication of ...

In a couple of months, Samantha Teehee, an eighth-grader at Salem Church Middle School in Chesterfield County, has gone from knowing little about forensic science to being interested in a career in ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study will examine the handing of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the United States. It will consider ...