Carlsbad forensic artist PJ Puterbaugh has spent more than a decade creating facial reconstructions for unidentified victims.

Law enforcement personnel, laboratory technicians, crime scene investigators and many others face a significant challenge for identification of materials in a forensic investigation. During an ...

(CNN) — The devastating fires in Maui have caused at least 115 deaths, yet only 46 of those have been identified two weeks on from the blaze, police said Thursday. Hundreds of people remain ...

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 ...

Forensics teams working within police departments frequently need to analyze and identify samples for various reasons. For example, chips of paint can often be deposited at the scene of a crime and ...

Madeline Atwell receives funding from the National Institute of Justice. Katherine Weisensee receives funding from the National Institute of Justice. A seasoned deer hunter is shocked when his hound ...

Material identification and analysis are crucially important within the forensic analysis field. Similarly to how there is no pre-determined set of materials that comprises all forensic lab analytes, ...