Crime & Clues
The Art and Science of Criminal Investigation
By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in Minutiae, the Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, #45, November-December 1997. Perhaps the most productive and cost-effective method of developing latent fingerprints on paper is…
By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in Minutiae, the Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, #44, Sep-Oct 1997. Some latent print technicians believe superglue should be listed second only to powder as…
By Robert W. Mann, M.A. and Douglas H. Ubelaker, Ph.D. Physical Anthropologists Department of Anthropology Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, July 1990. In…
by D.H. Garrison, Jr. Originally published in the Association of Firearm Toolmark Examiners Journal, Oct. 1993. Just because a shot was fired, and just because someone was injured or died as a…
by Daryl W. Clemens This article originally appeared in the MAFS newsletter, 27(2), April 1998. Definitions: Crime Scene Reconstruction- The use of scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive reasoning and their interrelationships to…
By Dean H. Garrison, Jr. This article originally appeared in the MAFS newsletter April 1996. “I tend not to try to determine why people do things at crime scenes.” -Criminalist Charles Morton…
By Dean H. Garrison, Jr. This editorial originally appeared in “The Scene”, the newsletter of the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction. The yellow tape is up. There are cops everywhere, and maybe…
By Wesley Clark No, I’m not talking about sacking your suspect in the hopes of getting a confession, that would be unsportsmanlike conduct, but there are many parallels that can be drawn…