Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. Screenshots of smartphone text messages have become a common ...

New forensic research reveals that fragments of moss as small as an eyelash can serve as a powerful tool in solving crimes.

Detego Global, the company behind the award-winning Unified Digital Forensics Platform, is proud to announce the launch of Detego Case Manager for DFIR, a powerful, purpose-built platform designed to ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

Karen Read pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe and is facing a retrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict last year. Karen Read is facing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. Digital evidence plays a pivotal role in everything from ...

New research reveals an innovative wildlife forensics method that uses advanced genetic tools and local DNA databases to help authorities solve complex environmental crimes involving multiple species.

Long before Jeff Tomberlin, Ph.D., professor of forensic entomology in the Texas A&M Department of Entomology, helped investigators solve murders with maggots, he was just a kid glued to the TV ...

When I tell laypeople that I am a forensic psychologist, they often picture me working with law enforcement in a criminal profiling case. As the conversation progresses, they learn that forensic ...

The bond between art and anatomy is ancient. Leonardo da Vinci once filled his notebooks with meticulous drawings of muscles, bones and the fragile scaffolding of the human face. On a campus in ...

One day in 2021 an Indian student in her early teens came to her family with some distressing news: At school, a man in his 20s had called her into an empty classroom and raped her at knifepoint.