Forensic science became a critical art in criminal investigations in the 1970s with the use of blood type identification. Every decade since has yielded enhanced forensic technology, leading to the ...

Jennifer Smiatacz, a forensic scientist employed by the Michigan State Police, quickly laid to rest any television-fueled illusions about what crime scene investigators do. “I don’t wear red leather ...

Their classroom is a patch of Morgan County woods inhabited by dead people. Corpses in the ground. Corpses above ground. If they succeed at this 10-week school, open to law enforcement across the ...