Fingerprints or DNA which is more effective in case? As someone who has worked in the crime scene investigation field, this is a question that has been posed to me more than once. The increase in ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Four employees at the Houston Forensic Science Center were fired last week, after their superiors discovered they started a private DNA testing lab, then lied about it when ...

DNA fingerprinting has been hailed by law-enforcement officials as the 20th century’s most important breakthrough in forensic science. They are eager to use the new technology to identify and ...

Every time we move through a space, we leave a little forensic trail behind: fingerprints, fibres, hair and, if you're enthusiastic enough, maybe even a little DNA. These forensic clues have provided ...

As potential developments in the automation of DNA fingerprinting threaten to introduce vulnerabilities in the system, researchers develop ‘genetic barcodes’ to prevent sample tampering. DNA ...