When police investigating a murder in 1990 needed more evidence to solve the crime, they called University botanist Anita Cholewa. “I’ve always been something of a Sherlock Holmes,” said Cholewa, a ...

In 1992, forensic anthropologist Mercedes (Mimi) Doretti (pictured above, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1980s) traveled to El Salvador as part of a U.N.-sponsored team to investigate the 1981 El ...

SAGA—The chief of the Saga prefectural police reassured the public that no third-party probe was needed for 130 inappropriate acts by a now fired forensic scientist concerning DNA testing. Hideyuki ...

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For many people, forensic pathology seems forbidding and dark. It deals intimately with death, crime, and disaster and is most often represented through the artifice of television shows and movies.

D.C.’s forensic crime lab has been reaccredited after nearly three years of being unable to process evidence. The lab has regained accreditation for its biology lab, which processes DNA, and the ...

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