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Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, ...
Yvonne “Missy” Woods, a lab agent with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, points to a DNA chart during Diego Olmos Alcalde’s murder trial on Monday, June 22, 2009 in Boulder.
The government is calling for an overhaul to the state’s forensic operations that are impacting court justice and victim ...
An NBC 5 investigation has raised questions about the Fort Worth Police Department's handling of sexual assault cases. The department has failed to test sexual assault evidence kits in a timely ...
Lawmakers give CBI longer to spend $3 million to address rape kit backlog — with new oversight Citing lack of trust, budget writers had balked at extending agency’s authorization to tap ...
Victims of serious crimes like rape and murder are waiting well over a year for vital DNA evidence in Queensland, a damning ...
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Colorado Department of Public Safety have released the findings of an independent assessment of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's Forensic ...
Signaling a 'new era' in forensic investigation, a man caught through genetic genealogy gets life in prison for 1987 double murder William Talbott II was arrested in 2018 for a Nov. 1987 double ...
Investigation vs. intervention: Forensic art therapy and art therapy in forensic settings. The American Journal of Art Therapy, 40 (2), 123-135. Rubin, J. (1979). Art therapy: An introduction.
Historically, and even in some contemporary mindsets, forensic practice has been equated with investigation of criminal matters. Originating in medieval England, with coroners appointed by the ...