If you are a fan of CSI or other forensic-investigation TV dramas, you could be forgiven for thinking that all the minute details of a violent crime can be deduced simply by looking at the pattern of ...

KENNEWICK -- Benton County sheriff's Detective Scott Runge studied strings he taped on a wall near a mock blood-covered crime scene and tried to figure out what happened. The strings were used to mark ...

Analysing the blood stains following a shooting can be key to finding the perpetrator, but it’s a field of forensics that is being called into question. Sidney Perkowitz explains how understanding the ...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers from the University of Illinois and Iowa State University has developed what they describe as a theoretical model for both interpreting and predicting ...