Chanel Lewis' attorneys still don't know what evidence led to his arrest for the 2016 murder of Karina Vetrano. New York City police claimed that an officer recalled seeing Lewis in the victim's ...

Imagine a detective sketch drawn not from a witness’s memory, but from a few cells left at a crime scene. That vision, long ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Bibliography for Workshop Speaker Presentations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Law Enforcement Use of Probabilistic Genotyping, ...

Beccy holds a PhD in Biological Science, a Master’s in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors, and a Bachelor’s in Human Biology and Forensic Science. Beccy holds a PhD in Biological ...

Though the program has obvious crime-fighting uses, it could also pose some legal and ethical challenges. Everyone who’s watched a police procedural knows that crime scene investigators can link the ...

The investigation into the 2012 murder of Irasema Chavez, which resulted in an arrest this week, highlights the evolution of DNA investigations. It's one thing to have blood, semen or saliva and a ...

Dominic has a degree from the University of Winchester in film production and is currently studying for his second degree in biology at the Open University. Dominic has a degree from the University of ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A process that uses DNA to suggest what an unknown person looks like is giving cold case investigators new hope of identifying a suspect in a brutal Maryland murder from 1992. DNA ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

In this workshop session, moderated by Natalie Ram, University of Maryland King Carey School of Law, presenters provided perspective on law enforcement use of emerging forensic DNA technologies abroad ...