Forensic Art- Facial Reconstruction
Natalie Murry demonstrates recreating a face from a skull using Corel Painter software as her drawing tool.
Forensic Science
Two Interesting Cold Case Articles
The first article has Michigan ties. Following up on a cold case led an Ohio medical examiner’s office to a fingerprint match and old files in Grand Haven that ID’d a man…
February 13, 2017October 20, 2021
Bloodstain Patterns on Textile Surfaces: A Fundamental Analysis
Article authored by: Stephen Michielsen, Michael Taylor, Namrata Parekh, Feng Ji Abstract Bloodstain pattern analysis, BPA, on hard surfaces (such as walls, tables, appliances, hardwood floors, etc.) has grown into a science-based investigative…
May 31, 2015May 30, 2015
The Forensic Antropologist
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…
February 27, 2013October 13, 2013
Fingerprinting the Dead
by Daryl W. Clemens Obtaining fingerprints for identification is a long established law enforcement practice. When the practice started, is was most common to use printers ink applied to the fingers which…
January 31, 2013October 13, 2013
The Role Of Entomology In Forensic Investigations
Written by Katherine Steck-Flynn (2003) Prologue This paper is intended for use by police and other emergency personnel who have occasion to be in contact to the recently and not so recently…
January 29, 2013October 13, 2013
Serological Evidence in Sexual Assault Investigations
By Robert R.J. Grispino, M.A. Special Agent Serology Unit, Laboratory Division FBI Headquarters This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, October 1990. NOTE: The following article presents a purely…