Two reasons people are attracted to the field of forensic science are to help solve crimes and to see justice served. Forensic scientists collect evidence from crime scenes and analyze that ...

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

This week is Forensic Science Week and we are learning what exactly a forensic science team does as a police department.

“What the climate can do to the human body can be very perplexing,” said Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI agent, whose specialty involved working on serial killer cases. O’Toole now heads the George ...

TOM. THANK YOU. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME A FORENSIC SCIENTIST? A GROUP OF BALTIMORE STUDENTS SPENT A WEEK LEARNING THE INS AND OUTS OF THE FIELD FROM BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT’S FORENSIC ...