Crime & Clues
The Art and Science of Criminal Investigation
“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…
By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in Minutiae, the Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, #43, July-August 1997. Even though magnetic powder has been available since the early 1960’s, many latent print…
by Kathy Steck- Flynn Edmond Locard was the founder of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyon in France. Locard believed that that when on person came in contact with…
By Kathy Steck-Flynn A man is found dead in an abandoned house. Upon examination the medical examiner finds that the man was killed by a single gunshot to the head. Three local…
By Susan H. Adams, M.A. Special Agent Adams teaches statement analysis as part of interviewing and interrogation courses at the FBI Academy. This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,…
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…