In even the most perfect of crimes, even by the smartest of criminals, there is always a little trace evidence left behind . The reason for this is the Interchange Theory (Edmund Locard, 1920) which ...

You are working a murder case where a suburban housewife is found brutally murdered in her living room. The husband comes home and finds her at 5:40 in the afternoon. The coroner established time of ...

Crime investigations focus on both people and objects, as individuals commit crimes using different items. The main aim is to find, keep, study, understand, and reconstruct all the physical evidence ...

While the majority of the public is aware of and has a general respect for the role of forensics, the wide range of applications in this field is largely unknown. Due to the rapidly advancing nature ...

In medicolegal investigations even exceedingly small particles of biologic material may have immense value. In a recent case, 45 mg. of dried milk curds was the only evidence available to corroborate ...

1891 illustration of Holmes scrutinising a crime scene. Camden House We seem to be living in a new era of forensic investigation. Since the introduction of DNA profiling in the mid-1980s, the forensic ...