In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as Columbo and Murder, She Wrote. The US docuseries Unsolved Mysteries brought a ...

In The Silence of the Lambs, investigators assume that “water leaves no trace evidence of any kind”. Yet today, aquatic forensic researchers examine not only insects but crustaceans, microorganisms ...

Congratulations to Vienna Lam on the successful defence of her PhD thesis, “Aquatic Forensic Taphonomy, Water-Related Fatalities, and Medicolegal Death Investigations”, a detailed work that helps to ...

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A Windsor-based forensic scientist is working to bring an outdoor lab to Kingsville, Ont., that would study how human bodies decompose over time. It would be just the second of its kind in Canada. The ...

The UCSF Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program offers rigorous training in civil, criminal, correctional, and consultative forensic psychiatry. The goal of the program is to enable psychiatrists to ...

Cape Town forensic scientists, including researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), are pushing frontiers of new detection methods. What is the role of forensic taphonomists? In death, we all ...

Shari Forbes has a girlish laugh, green eyes and blond curly hair. A maths and science "nerd" at school, she loves dogs, netball, playing beach volleyball at Curl Curl on Sunday afternoons, Italian ...

Cape Town has consistently been one of the metropolitan regions in SA with the highest murder rates. It has more than double the national average, and is currently ranked second overall and 16th ...