The Role Of Entomology In Forensic Investigations
Written by Katherine Steck-Flynn (2003) Prologue This paper is intended for use by police and other emergency personnel who have occasion to be in contact to the recently and not so recently deceased....
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Fingerprinting the Dead
by Daryl W. Clemens Plastic Tape Obtaining fingerprints for identification is a long established law enforcement practice. When the practice started, is was most common to use printers ink applied to...
View ArticleFootwear, the Missed Evidence
Dwayne S. Hilderbrand, CLPE Lead Latent Print Examiner Scottsdale Police Crime Lab This article originally appeared in Minutiae, The Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, Nov-Dec 1995, p. 2-5, 11. “The...
View ArticleInterrogations and Touchdowns; a Comparison between Football and Getting...
By Wesley Clark No, I’m not talking about sacking your suspect in the hopes of getting a confession, that would be unsportsmanlike conduct, but there are many parallels that can be drawn between these...
View ArticleHow to Enter a Crime Scene
By Dean H. Garrison, Jr. This editorial originally appeared in “The Scene”, the newsletter of the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction. The yellow tape is up. There are cops everywhere, and maybe...
View ArticleWhy Crime Scene Reconstruction Does Not Answer the Why? Question
By Dean H. Garrison, Jr. This article originally appeared in the MAFS newsletter April 1996. “I tend not to try to determine why people do things at crime scenes.” -Criminalist Charles Morton...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction for the Criminal Profiler
by Daryl W. Clemens This article originally appeared in the MAFS newsletter, 27(2), April 1998. Definitions: Crime Scene Reconstruction- The use of scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive...
View ArticleIntent Behind the Bullet
by D.H. Garrison, Jr. Originally published in the Association of Firearm Toolmark Examiners Journal, Oct. 1993. Just because a shot was fired, and just because someone was injured or died as a result...
View ArticleThe Forensic Antropologist
By Robert W. Mann, M.A. and Douglas H. Ubelaker, Ph.D. Physical Anthropologists Department of Anthropology Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law...
View ArticleStatement Analysis: What Do Suspects’ Words Really Reveal?
By Susan H. Adams, M.A. Special Agent Adams teaches statement analysis as part of interviewing and interrogation courses at the FBI Academy. This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement...
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Conducting Successful Interrogations
By David Vessel, J. D. This article originally appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Oct. 1998, and appears on the internet at http://www.fbi.gov/library/leb/leb.htm. Obtaining information that...
View ArticleCrime Scene Investigation and Fingerprinting
Interesting historic video on crime scene investigation and forensic science. I have a copy as well, that I purchased on DVD from the National Archives. The date on the original is a bit unclear, but...
View ArticleInterview & Interrogation Article via Wired
A Severed Head, Two Cops, and the Radical Future of Interrogation
View ArticleThe Truth About Lying- From the FBI
The Truth About Lying: What Investigators Need to Know “Often investigators express confidence in their ability to spot a lie. The belief that it is relatively easy to catch a liar has been fueled by...
View ArticleFamily DNA Searches in the News Again
Forty year old murder solved via family DNA search. The suspect identified was killed by police in 1982 following an escape from prison. Read the full article- Los Angeles Times
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2018 CSI Conference
International Crime Scene Investigators Association Annual Conference, this year we are in Nashville. Come on out and join us! http://www.icsia.org/2018-csi-conference/
View ArticleCrime Scene Search Video
This is a video produced by the FBI in the 1960’s. A lot has changed since then, but a lot remains the same as well. This isn’t a completely awful guide to searching a scene. I’m a sucker for all of...
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