THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a cloudy afternoon. Dr S K Padmakumar was in the courtroom, anxiously awaiting sentencing in the first criminal case he was part of. As soon as the judge made the ruling — ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

BOISE, Idaho — An innovative approach to criminal investigations first came to the forefront around 2018. Since then, forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or FIGG, has been instrumental in ...

Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. The FBI credited ...