On TV, once a forensic expert finds a match for that lone strand of hair at the crime scene, it’s over. Finito. The criminal ends up behind bars. And maybe the attorneys exchange some witty banter. If ...

Alexander Cameron, an inmate serving life for rape and abduction, responded a year ago to a notice that officials were looking for offenders who might have been wrongly convicted by overstated expert ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Justice Department and FBI on Monday pledged an independent review of FBI laboratory protocols and procedures following the discovery of flawed forensics testimony in hundreds of ...

Can a hair really reveal who committed a crime? The FBI has admitted that flawed evidence was accepted in nearly all of the trials that took place over the 1980s and 90s that included hair analysis ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

A bombshell 2009 report suggested widespread errors in the FBI's crime labs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to ...