WASHINGTON -- Kirk Odom was convicted of a 1981 rape and robbery after a woman identified him as her attacker, and an FBI specialist testified hair on her nightgown was consistent with hair on Odom's ...

While the rest of the world was debating the ethics, privacy concerns, and utility of using fitness trackers or DNA to solve crimes, a lab in California was slowly mining the forensic power of pubic ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death row for murder, ...

A new application that uses artificial intelligence may revolutionize the way scientists study hair and could lead to the development of health diagnostics based solely on hair. The AI model speeds up ...

More than 2,000 criminal cases across the U.S. involving FBI "hair examiners" will be reviewed. More than 2,000 criminal cases across the United States involving FBI "hair examiners" will be reviewed ...

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At the age of 18, Kirk Odom was convicted for a rape he did not commit, and spent 22 years in jail. The only evidence? An FBI hair “analysis” program now known to be unscientific, which was used to ...

Fifty-one people currently serving sentences in Colorado prisons will have their cases probed by state law enforcement and University of Colorado law school professors for potentially faulty hair ...

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A critical piece of evidence could help Rowan County investigators solve the county’s oldest unsolved murder, a 52-year-old case of a baby girl’s killing.

The Saint Louis University Forensic Science program offers courses with hands-on learning opportunities. FRSC 2600 - Survey of Forensic Science 3 credits Students learn scientific methodology, its ...