Forensics

 

INCEST, MURDER AND FLIGHT: THE EASTMILN TRAGEDY

May 7 2015, Martin Baggoley
Four months after his marriage to a beautiful 19-year-old, middle-aged Thomas Ogilvie was dead. His younger brother and the young widow were suspected of conspiring to poison him with arsenic.by...
 

Searching For A Link To A Broken Lifeline

January 29 2015, Deborah Rubin Fields
Fifteen years after the rape and murder of high school senior Noa Eyal, a man was arrested on a charge of domestic violence and was forced to provide a DNA sample. A year later, in 2014, that sample...
 

Forensics: Stable Isotope Profiling

August 5 2013, Liz Porter
Aug. 5, 2013The latest big thing in forensics is a technique called “stable isotope analysis,” a process that allows scientists to analyze a human body’s hair – or fingernails or bones – to find out...
 

Operation Shadow: Catching the Narong Road Rapist

November 12 2012, Liz Porter
George Kaufman The first criminal investigation in Australia – and one of the first in the world – to use DNA to solve a case. by Liz Porter The affluent middle-class suburb of North Caulfield...
 

The Phantom of Hielbronn

May 20 2013, Paul Buchanan
DNA and the transgender Gypsy super-criminal. by Paul Buchanan On the afternoon of April 25, 2007, Michele Kiesewetter, a 22-year-old police officer in the German city of Heilbronn, drove with...
 

The Mechanics of Investigating a DNA “Partial Match”

September 19 2013,
New York City medical examiner’s office (Photo NY Times) by John Paolucci DNA as a biometric identifier has come a long way since it first caught the public’s eye in 1995 during the O.J. Simpson...

INCEST, MURDER AND FLIGHT: THE EASTMILN TRAGEDY

May 7 2015, 0 Comments
Four months after his marriage to a beautiful 19-year-old, middle-aged Thomas Ogilvie was dead. His younger brother and the young widow were suspected of conspiring to poison him with arsenic.by...

Searching For A Link To A Broken Lifeline

January 29 2015, 0 Comments
Fifteen years after the rape and murder of high school senior Noa Eyal, a man was arrested on a charge of domestic violence and was forced to provide a DNA sample. A year later, in 2014, that sample...

Italian Vendetta: The Amanda Knox Case

January 20 2014, 0 Comments
Updated April 1, 2015 The murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy on November 1, 2007 caused a global controversy. Not so much for the crime itself, although it was certainly a...