Extreme weather conditions can make reconstructing the scene of a crime more difficult. Nick Thompson/iStock via Getty Images Plus What happens to a dead body in an extremely cold environment? Does it ...

Frances Glessner Lee created detailed miniature crime scenes that are complete with tiny bruises, blood spatters, and bite ...

NEW YORK – The Marine veteran on trial for the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely called an expert forensic pathologist to the witness stand Thursday, and he came to a dramatically different ...

The disappearance and death of 4-year-old Johnathan Boley in Walker County has left investigators and the community searching ...

A unique program in Texas is allowing fire investigators to better understand fire deaths. The Collin County Fire & Arson Investigators Association, headed up by Wylie Fire Rescue Fire Marshal and ...

Getting an accurate estimate of when someone died is a critical part of forensic investigations. In extremely cold conditions, molecular biology can provide critical information that the naked eye ...

In the grand hall of the Mutter Museum, a bustling crowd of death enthusiasts gathered last week to hear talks by medical examiners, morticians and other professionals who come face-to-face with human ...

Dying, it turns out, is not like flipping a switch. Genes keep working for a while after a person dies, and scientists have used that activity in the lab to pinpoint time of death to within about nine ...

The third day of former Angels employee Eric Kay’s trial in connection to the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs centered on technology investigators and those involved in Skaggs’ autopsy. It made for ...

They specialize in determining the causes of sudden, unexpected or violent deaths. But according to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. is facing a critical shortage of these professionals.

Forensic pathologist Judy Melinek says that the justice's death feeds conspiracy theories unnecessarily; there should have been an autopsy It takes the death of one of the nation's top jurists to make ...