Wilmer Souder, a physicist and early forensic scientist at the National Bureau of Standards, now NIST, compares two bullets using a comparison microscope. Souder learned forensic techniques from ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Forensic experts are working to determine if the shotgun found in Jake Patterson's Gordon, Wisconsin, home was the one used to fatally shoot Jayme Closs' parents. The Bureau of ...

Not many physicists carry a gun to defend themselves against attackers provoked by their research, but that’s exactly what Wilmer Souder once felt the need to do. Since 1911 he worked at the US ...

Shots rang out across a Phoenix apartment complex one cool desert night last December. A patrolman arrived to investigate. Cleophus Cooksey Jr., 36, answered his knock at the door — covered in blood.

Once that happens, the FSL will become part of a national database of markings on bullets and cartridges recovered from crime scenes. “Once we receive the proposal from the director, FSL, we will take ...

Shivangi Rao is a research fellow in the Department of Forensic Science at Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, where she focuses on Forensic Genetics and Molecular Biology She has ...