2018 CSI Conference
International Crime Scene Investigators Association Annual Conference, this year we are in Nashville. Come on out and join us! http://www.icsia.org/2018-csi-conference/
Did Amelia Earhart survive crash landing in the Marshall Islands?
A recently released photo seems to indicate that she may have. The photo is discussed in a new History Channel special that airs Sunday July 9. Read more about the story here…
July 5, 2017October 20, 2021
Barry Fisher on expert witness testimony
A good, if short, look at the admissibility of expert witness testimony and whether or not statistical data is a requirement for something to qualify. Published by Taylor & Francis Online as…
June 29, 2017June 29, 2017
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
Family DNA Searches in the News Again
Forty year old murder solved via family DNA search. The suspect identified was killed by police in 1982 following an escape from prison. Read the full article- Los Angeles Times
January 31, 2017October 20, 2021
The Truth About Lying- From the FBI
The Truth About Lying: What Investigators Need to Know “Often investigators express confidence in their ability to spot a lie. The belief that it is relatively easy to catch a liar has…
January 30, 2017January 30, 2017
Family DNA Article from the New York Times
Family DNA Searches Seen as Crime-Solving Tool, and Intrusion on Rights Personally, I fail to see the intrusion on rights, but it’s an interesting article about DNA technology. Family searches aren’t even…
January 28, 2017January 30, 2017
Crime Scene Investigation Conference
2017 CSI CONFERENCE Training, Education and Technology June 6, 7, & 8, 2017 Hilton Phoenix Chandler 2929 West Frye Road Chandler Arizona USA This will be the fourth year for the conference…
January 26, 2017January 30, 2017
Shooting Reconstruction
Interesting article over at Forensic Magazine: Devil’s in the Details for Ed Hueske, Who Wrote the Book on Shooting Reconstructions
August 26, 2016August 26, 2016
Forensic Science: A Time of Transformation (NIJ)
This is not a long article, but I found parts of it quite interesting. http://nij.gov/journals/277/pages/forensics.aspx ‘…the “growing debate among the scientific and legal communities” regarding the use of the terms “identification” or “individualization” in…