Crime & Clues
The Art and Science of Criminal Investigation
The International Crime Scene Investigators Association will be holding their second annual conference in New Orleans, May 19-21, 2015. So far there are attendees registered from 14 countries. Last years conference was…
Walk through two complex arson cases at top LASD investigator Ed Nordskog’s latest forensic science seminar WHAT: Cal State Los Angeles Professor Donald Johnson, in association with LAVA – The Los Angeles…
December 1-3, 2014 Location: HCSO Training Facility Time: 9:00am-5:30pm USF-HCSO is co-hosting a 3-day workshop (24 hour training) for detectives, crime scene personnel, death investigators, prosecutors and defense attorneys, as well as…
MAFS is announcing a Forensic Anthropology Workshop hosted by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory in Olathe, Kansas on June 17th – June 19th. This is a 3-day course instructed by a world-renowned expert…
The International Crime Scene Investigators Association will he holding a training conference in Little Rock, AR. May 13-15, 2014. This is truly an international conference with presenters and attendees from across the…
Great video on how to super glue for fingerprints from the folks at Make magazine.
By David Vessel, J. D. This article originally appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Oct. 1998, and appears on the internet at http://www.fbi.gov/library/leb/leb.htm. Obtaining information that an individual does not want to…
“Lies & Lie Detection; Navigating your way to the Truth within Interviews and Interrogations” This will be a 5 day/4 night cruise from New York City to St. John in Canada during which there will be 12…
Just what is the impression of forensic science held by members of the general public (our pool of jurors)? If they believe everything they see on TV or in the movies, they…
“Wizard’s First Rule: people are stupid…given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because…