Author AThornton

Twenty-five years ago Richmond Mouchon found his grandmother dead in her apartment. This year, he went to his local police station to inquire about the investigation. There he met with an officer who looked into the case and discovered that… Continue Reading →

A bill to establish a forensic lab in the Virgin Islands made it out of committee on Thursday. This bill would call for a forensic lab in the Virgin Islands that would parallel labs in the United States and would match… Continue Reading →

The Montana State Crime Lab is improving training and bringing on new forensic scientists after last year was marred by staffing shortages and shipping bodies outside of the state to be evaluated. Read more on Montana’s improvements, here.

The team, which specializes in crime scene and airplane crash recoveries, was sought out to assist first responders in recovering bodies from the site of a plane crash in Ohio.

A 16-year-old girl was raped at a party and again at her “rescuer’s” home on February 15, 2014. An investigation quickly followed after the victim arrived at the hospital, clearly drugged and battered. Police were able to obtain an eyewitness who… Continue Reading →

Detroit is one of the many jurisdictions with a backlog of untested rape kits. Businesswomen in Detroit, learning about the backlog, quickly rallied around the cause and formed a private organization, Enough SAID (Sexual Assault in Detroit) to fundraise privately,… Continue Reading →

Adacia Chambers has been charged with four counts of second-degree murder in conjunction with driving into a crowd of people at the Oklahoma State University Homecoming parade. A forensic psychologist evaluated Chambers in prison and found that she exhibited signs… Continue Reading →

A long forensic investigation has resulted in the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander believing that Lt. Joe Gliniewicz’s death was a suicide. Investigators believe that his suicide was prompted by increased stress of stealing money from the department. Read… Continue Reading →

Recently, a Montana Forensic Pathologist, Thomas Bennett, came under fire for conducting flawed autopsies on children. While all of Bennett’s cases are not being reviewed at this time, the controversy in Montana has led to revamping the office and discussing the… Continue Reading →

Prosecutors in Japan have a 99% conviction rate, chiefly due to the ubiquity of confessions in criminal cases. Recently, Japan has embraced various forensic science procedures, modeled after those practiced in the United States, to evaluate evidence in criminal cases…. Continue Reading →