SEATTLE — For nearly two decades, one of the country’s most prolific serial murderers haunted the Pacific Northwest as a faceless specter of death, known only by his notorious nickname: the Green ...

The real-life FBI finds an ally in Jerry Bruckheimer and his facsimile of a missing persons unit. By Ray Richmond, The Associated Press Arguably, CBS’ “Without a Trace” takes some artistic license, in ...

In 2001, Gary Ridgway was arrested for the murder of nearly 50 women and girls. During the 1980s and 1990s, detectives struggled to catch the suspect known as the Green River Killer. But according to ...

(CBS) - There are new DNA test results in the murder case involving Amanda Knox. And that sound coming from Italy is Knox's prosecutors changing their tune. Will it be a canon to innocence or the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office is among the first to respond to a death scene, but their investigation goes beyond an autopsy. The office is offering residents a peek ...

While the majority of the public is aware of and has a general respect for the role of forensics, the wide range of applications in this field is largely unknown. Due to the rapidly advancing nature ...

One area where these types of trace evidence can be found is when a tool or an object is used to commit the crime. This might represent a crow bar used to pry open a lock or break in to a safe, or an ...

WHEN the Army's Criminal Investigation Command's special agents need to have evidence for a case analyzed, they send it to a cutting-edge laboratory located in Fort Gillem, Ga. The U.S. Army Criminal ...

Crime investigations focus on both people and objects, as individuals commit crimes using different items. The main aim is to find, keep, study, understand, and reconstruct all the physical evidence ...

Robert Mazrim is haunted by a highway that no longer exists. Tantalizing bits of evidence that it served travelers for thousands of years keep disrupting his regular work as a historical archaeologist ...

University-owned notebook computers loaded with tens of thousands of personnel files have gone missing — repeatedly — in the past few years. Theft is a constant threat for universities’ portable ...