MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Forensic experts are working to determine if the shotgun found in Jake Patterson's Gordon, Wisconsin, home was the one used to fatally shoot Jayme Closs' parents. The Bureau of ...

Forensic scientist Dani Oshlo demonstrates use of a microscope in the main lab of the biology unit at the state crime lab on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016. A forensic scientist demonstrates use of a ...

Shots rang out across a Phoenix apartment complex one cool desert night last December. A patrolman arrived to investigate. Cleophus Cooksey Jr., 36, answered his knock at the door — covered in blood.

Anya Lester loaded the weapon with shiny, fresh bullets. Wearing eye and ear protection, she aimed the gun into a cold, coffin-like water tank, took a deep breath and fired. Bam, bam, bam the gun went ...

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering firearm and toolmark analysis, the forensic discipline used in the investigation of gun ...

JOHN HOLDEN talks to Dr John O’Shaughnessy from the chemistry section of the Forensic Science Laboratory about five ways chemistry… JOHN HOLDENtalks to Dr John O'Shaughnessy from the chemistry section ...

On an early Sunday morning, police officers responded to a double homicide scene where witnesses claim the suspect responsible for the homicide is a known thug who lives in the same area and was seen ...

Once that happens, the FSL will become part of a national database of markings on bullets and cartridges recovered from crime scenes. “Once we receive the proposal from the director, FSL, we will take ...

Shivangi Rao is a Scientific Officer in the Biology/DNA Division at the State Forensic Science Laboratory, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. She is also a Research Scholar in the Department of Forensic Science at ...