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 ...

That’s not a phrase people normally want to hear in a college class. But those words uttered by Amanda Hunt were simply part of a special forensics dig by students in Lance Johnson’s forensics science ...

MARIETTA — Wheeler High School magnet students stumbled across a murder scene in school last week. However, instead of calling the police, they set out solving the crime themselves, eventually ...

Outdoor forensic anthropology research laboratories are colloquially called “body farms,” a term that many researchers find too sensational but that has stuck following the 1994 publication of ...

In a couple of months, Samantha Teehee, an eighth-grader at Salem Church Middle School in Chesterfield County, has gone from knowing little about forensic science to being interested in a career in ...