Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kirk Odom was convicted of a 1981 rape and robbery after a woman identified him as her attacker and an FBI specialist testified that hair on her nightgown was similar to hair on Odom ...

Casemaking clothes moth caterpillars can digest human hair and will feed on corpses. But it’s not all bad news, scientists say. Hair bits nipped off of corpses by caterpillars of the casemaking ...

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A critical piece of evidence could help Rowan County investigators solve the county’s oldest unsolved murder, a 52-year-old case of a baby girl’s killing.

Alexander Cameron, an inmate serving life for rape and abduction, responded a year ago to a notice that officials were looking for offenders who might have been wrongly convicted by overstated expert ...

Hairy facts The presence of fungi in hair samples is often misinterpreted in forensic investigations, say researchers. Their study, on the causes and effects of biological degradation of hair, is ...

An investigator who wants to figure out if drugs contributed to a crime will likely collect hair samples from the person of interest. As hair forms in the follicle, drugs in the bloodstream slip into ...

A new application that uses artificial intelligence may revolutionize the way scientists study hair and could lead to the development of health diagnostics based solely on hair. The AI model speeds up ...

What made the FBI reverse its position on hair analysis? In 2010 and 2011, three men were exonerated by DNA testing in the District of Columbia. In all three cases, the primary evidence used to ...

The FBI and Justice Department admitted for the first time that forensic unit for the bureau provided false testimony in nearly every trial that involved hair analysis, The Washington Post reports.

A single strand of hair in a crime scene contains many clues that can help identify a perpetrator. In a recent study, scientists have combined two modern techniques, called surface-enhanced Raman ...