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 ...

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 ...

Old-School Hair Analysis Is Junk Science. But It Still Keeps People Behind Bars The technique, developed before DNA testing, can’t definitively tie suspects to crime scenes. Try explaining that to ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

The Saint Louis University Forensic Science program offers courses with hands-on learning opportunities. FRSC 2600 - Survey of Forensic Science 3 credits Students learn scientific methodology, its ...