He used aliases and ruses. His notebooks are filled with careful forensic analyses of ransom notes and other pieces of evidence. While you probably have never heard the name Wilmer Souder, he helped ...

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

Frances Glessner Lee didn’t want to be known as a “rich woman who didn’t have enough to do.” In her 60s, she became a pioneer of forensic science. On an afternoon in July 1940, several day laborers ...

A report by Dr Kirsty Wright has found widespread issues at Forensic Science Queensland. The beleaguered lab was at the heart of two commissions of inquiry in 2022 and 2023. Victims of serious crimes ...