The tools of forensic science, like DNA analysis, the use of sequencing, RNA testing and PCR testing are being used to: Reveal the genome of the virus. This is done by a process called DNA sequencing. Knowing the genome allows…
Some of the latest thinking about the Lindbergh kidnapping that happened in 1932, causing the death of the son of Charles Lindbergh, famed aviator who completed the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight from Long Island’s Roosevelt Field to Paris, comes to…
THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING: The Mystery of “Cemetery John”. Who Was John Knowles? The confession of Gene Zorn, the author’s father, concerning a Conversation he overheard in Palisades Park, N.J., in which a neighbor, John Knoll, said the words Bruno and Englewood…
Did you ever wonder what Leonardo DaVinci left in his attic when he died? Or maybe in his garage, whoops stable, or in his workshop? It’s hard to imagine that at least some of the works of the great masters…
Art Crime is an estimated six billion, yes, that’s b for billion, dollar a year transnational crime. It is number four on the transnational crime list, after drug trafficking, money laundering, and illegal arms trafficking. The stolen and forged art…
EVIDENCE FROM CAPITAL MURDER CASES IS SAVED FOR MANY YEARS. HERE ARE TWO COLD CASES WHERE DNA SHED LIGHT ON UNSOLVED MURDERS THE MURDER OF MARILYN SHEPARD Sam Sheppard was accused, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife…
CODIS IS THE COMBINED DNA INDEX SYSTEM All those convicted of a violent crime must submit a sample of DNA to be entered into this system When evidence is collected at a crime scene, and there is no known suspect,…
Why was Christie so obsessed with poisons? Here’s a quote included in an exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History? Poison in Literature: Agatha Christie by AMNH on 11/29/2013 10:09 am ON EXHIBIT POSTS From the Borgias’ time to the…
During my teaching career when I taught Forensic Science, and now in my lecture series, I have dealt with and do treat topics in forensic science. Forensic science is any branch of science or area of expertise in that branch…
I never dreamed these lectures would be so popular! My many years of teaching forensic science led me to choose the topics in that field that I find most interesting. I created a series of programs with PowerPoint which I…