The University of Colorado Boulder Police Department’s property and evidence unit is the first university police department in North America to earn the SCS Northwest Evidence Management Professional Accreditation certificate, a process that took about two years to complete. read more

San Diego County Crime Stoppers and investigators from the San Diego Police Department’s Homicide Cold Case Unit are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating the suspect responsible for the murder of Nicole Weis, which occurred nearly 22 years ago. read more

A Florida man exonerated of a 1983 rape and murder after serving 37 years in prison is suing over his wrongful conviction in which a disproven bite mark was crucial evidence. read more

New research could help forensic teams in their work to estimate the age of the remains of children discovered during archaeological work or in criminal investigative cases. read more

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