crime scene investigation

11.22.09

Scientists Prove DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated

By Stuart Fox Posted 08.20.2009 at 10:45 am 9 Comments

Time to order extra black lights and sun glasses, because crime scene investigation just got a whole lot harder. A group of Israeli scientists have proven that DNA evidence can be faked and even created, all without tissue samples.

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An Apple By Any Other Name

Sticks and stones can break your bones but… names can make you commit crimes?

By Christina Hurtado Posted 02.05.2009 at 5:51 pm 7 Comments

A few weeks ago, some kids in New Jersey were removed from their home by Child Protective Services because their parents named them after Nazis. When the story got out, their dad told reporters that he didn’t think there was anything wrong with naming a kid Adolf Hitler Campbell. The media coverage around this story created an interesting new controversy. Is giving your child a bad name really a form of abuse?

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Welcome to the Dollhouses of Death

Barbie's dead. Did Ken do it? How miniature death-scene dioramas are used to teach modern CSI techniques.

By Jessica Snyder Sachs Posted 04.29.2003 at 1:49 pm 0 Comments

After the class work in fingerprinting, ballistics and firearm identification, the laboratory exercises in blood spatters, tool marks, shoe prints and drag marks, the death-investigation lectures and the autopsy, the demonstrations in detecting and collecting trace evidence . . . after all that, when Tom Mauriello's students have worked their way through every aspect of crime scene investigation in his renowned criminalistics course, it's time to play with his dollhouses.

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