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Inkless Footwear Pads
Footwear impressions can provide valuable information to the crime scene reconstructionist. Examiners look for class and individual characteristics in crime scene shoe impressions that may link that...
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Will Washing Clothes Really Destroy Bloodstains?
Blood evidence is a powerful tool for the crime scene investigator. Whether testing for DNA or examining the bloodstain patterns to reconstruct the events of a crime blood is a powerful witness. This...
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Interview with a Forensic Botanist: Dr. Jane Bock
Dr. Jane Bock is a forensic botanist and researcher from Colorado affiliated with a number of professional organizations. She has been conducting field research for over four decades and has received...
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Interview with Forensic Geologist Jim Reed
I have a special treat for you today F4F readers. Jim Reed is currently the Director of Research & Development for RockWare Incorporated, a geological software company based in Golden, Colorado...
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An Experiment in Observation
The art of observation is critical to every CSI. We have to be able to see things that others can not. Contrary to popular opinion we don’t always “see” everything that we see. To steal an example from...
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What the Heck is Entomotoxicology?
The House fly I’ve written before about the role of the forensic entomologist in death investigations. These professionals can provide critical information regarding the time since colonization and...
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Introducing the M-Vac DNA Vacuum
I love introducing you to cutting edge technologies that may turn your reader’s heads and make them turn the page. Forensics has never been a stagnant science. Dozens of researchers are pushing...
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Stringing Bloodstains: The Old School Method
Today I’ve been invited to share a post at Writing With the Top Down BLOG on this method of determining the three dimensional area of origin in bloodstain pattern analysis. I’d love it if you could...
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Laser Mapping a Crime Scene
I have been a bit AWOL lately. Every now and then I need a vacation and this last one turned out to be quite a little adventure. So today I thought it would be interesting to talk about the next...
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Using Luminol to Detect Blood on Concrete Nearly a Year After Deposition
So most of you know that in addition to writing novels I also continue to conduct research in the forensic science. Some of it is probably quite boring but I thought you might find my latest paper...
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