Traces of deodorant, perfume and soap left behind at crime scenes could soon be used by police to help trap criminals. Forensics experts are building chemical profiles of popular fragrances to help ...

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Matt von Konrat, Head of Botanical Collections at the Field Museum in Chicago and corresponding author of the paper, ...

Scroll down to reveal how to become a forensic scientist MANY serial killers think they can get away with murder, but according to a female forensic expert, they all make the same simple mistake. Jo ...

AROUND 100,000 criminal cases go through Scotland’s legal system each year according to recent figures. They vary in seriousness — from speeding hearings to gruesome murder trials — and are heard in ...

Forensics experts yesterday said they had exhumed 38 bodies, eight of them children, from a recently found mass grave. Forensics experts yesterday said they had exhumed 38 bodies, eight of them ...

Courtroom dramas play up the idea of criminal trials as a hard-fought contest between the prosecution and the defense. The prosecutor, representing the state, tries at all costs to secure a conviction ...

FORENSIC experts swooped on a sealed-off park as officers combed the area for clues in a mystery police probe. White-suited teams were spotted yesterday at Cadzow Glen in Hamilton. A nearby bridge was ...

The murderers of Stephen Lawrence were convicted on the strength of fresh forensic evidence following a "cold case review" that started in 2006. Scientists working at LGC Forensics in the UK found ...

Forensics experts are scouring a property where detectives looking into the murder of Leah Croucher, who vanished in 2019, have found human remains. Blue tarpaulin could be seen in the back garden of ...

A bogus forensic psychologist who supplied evidence in hundreds of court cases over almost 30 years has been convicted on 20 charges. Gene Morrison, 48, who left school with no qualifications, was ...

The murder happened in Walmer Street in south Belfast in February 2016 A forensic expert has told a murder trial he disagreed with another expert who linked a shotgun found in a defendant's flat to ...