During the 1990s, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside became synonymous with tragedy as dozens of women disappeared without a trace. For years, families and advocacy groups demanded answers, but systemic failures and societal biases delayed justice. The trail of these disappearances...

Poisoning emerged as the perfect murder weapon during the early 1900s. Murderers often walked free while innocent people faced wrongful convictions because toxic substances in human tissue couldn't be detected reliably. Alexander Gettler revolutionized this scenario. He became America's first...

Police officers discovered sixteen-year-old Leanne Tiernan's body in a wooded area near Leeds in August 2001. Her murder case pushed the boundaries of British forensic science, yielding investigative breakthroughs that would shape criminal investigations for decades to come. The teenager...

Introduction The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled its landmark publication, DNA Mixture Interpretation: A Scientific Foundation Review. This pivotal report evaluates the methodologies used in forensic laboratories to analyze complex DNA mixtures involving genetic material from...

Microscopic detectives, thousands of times smaller than human hair, are now at the forefront of modern crime scene investigation. These revolutionary nanomaterials detect crucial evidence that even the most sophisticated traditional forensic methods fail to unveil. With the emergence of...