The high-profile disappearances of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa in England and Gabby Petito have brought renewed attention to media bias in coverage of missing person cases. read more

What do you do when you know a crucial piece of digital evidence should be somewhere in a phone’s file, or in the Cloud, or in the social media account – yet it’s nowhere to be found? What are your options for finding that text message or photo? read more

In April 1981, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found off I-80 near Route 30 in New Lenox, Illinois. read more

The Department of Homeland Security awarded $999,406 to South Dakota-based small business Synthetik Applied Technologies, LLC to develop a targeted surface interrogation technology that quickly detects trace residues of explosives and illicit drugs on carry-on baggage, laptops and other items. read more

Facial reconstructions of three bodies exhumed last year by forensic anthropologists in Florida will be featured—along with 17 other John and Jane Does—in a month-long museum exhibit called “The Art of Forensics.” read more

All conventional identification approaches including Short Tandem Repeat (STR) DNA testing at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) were unsuccessful in producing leads to the man’s identity. read more

One of the biggest challenges for children on the witness stand involves questions pertaining to the sequence of events. read more

As investigators continued to search for new information, they began re-interviewing witnesses and were also able to locate a witness who had been out of the United States for an extended period. read more

Ohio has forged an $808 million agreement with the three largest distributors of opioids that puts the state at the front of the line to receive monetary relief for communities ravaged by the addiction crisis. read more

Michael Peat, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, says he is disappointed by the “emotional” nature of letters submitted in response to a February 2021 study by Itiel Dror et al., that claims to show the potential for racial cognitive bias in the forensic pathology field. read more