For decades, crime scene investigators have struggled to match footprints to specific suspects. Environmental conditions like rain, wind, and shifting soil frequently destroy these fragile impressions ...

Forensic fibers can survive underwater for much longer than previously thought—which could help criminal investigators uncover vital evidence. New research led by Staffordshire University's Centre for ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

Seizing drugs or arresting suspects can disrupt criminal operations, but dismantling transnational criminal networks requires something more enduring: evidence that connects crimes, weapons, drugs, ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It’s been decades since the intersection of forensic science ...

Forensic fibers can survive underwater for much longer than previously thought -- which could help criminal investigators uncover vital evidence. New research has found that fiber evidence can survive ...