This year, the museum opened “Forensic Science on Trial,” a temporary exhibition that explores how people influence the way forensic science is used in the pursuit of justice. The exhibition’s curator ...

An exhibition at the National Museum of American History examines how humans influence and judge investigation techniques Arsenic tests for the Lydia Sherman trial of 1872 Brian Handwerk - Science ...

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 ...

He was the first to use PCR testing on crime-scene DNA, inspiring a practice that has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted people. By Michael S. Rosenwald The forensic scientist Edward T. Blake ...

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“What the climate can do to the human body can be very perplexing,” said Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI agent, whose specialty involved working on serial killer cases. O’Toole now heads the George ...