Derrick Del Reed is pictured during his murder trial on March 8, 2024, in Douglas County District Court. A teenager on trial in another teen’s shooting death tested positive for gunshot residue after ...

Bullet casings under examination at the state crime lab in 2023. (Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) A national firearms database used by Rhode Island State Crime Lab last month flagged a ...

The Washington State Patrol (WSP) Crime Laboratory Division (CLD) is currently addressing challenges that have led to a backlog of over a year for firearm forensics. Firearm forensics, or forensic ...

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Each year, forensic firearm examiners play a pivotal role in thousands of criminal investigations, comparing spent bullets and cartridge cases to determine if they came from same gun. Their ...

A team of scientists at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Meriden worked around the clock to examine evidence related to the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A whole year could pass before the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation processes firearms evidence recovered at a crime scene in Tennessee. Despite recent efforts to reduce ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Patrol (WSP) is taking significant steps to address a growing backlog in firearms forensics cases, which has been straining the capacity of its crime laboratories ...

Samantha McCrane of UNH’s Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery (FAIR) Lab swabs a gun grip to look for trace DNA during study trials with a less expensive and easy to use DNA test. DURHAM ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A court ruling on Friday put an involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin on track for trial in early July as a judge denied a request to dismiss the case on complaints that ...

DELPHI, Ind. – Jurors learned more about the toolmark evidence surrounding the so-called “unspent bullet” found at the Delphi murders scene. Richard Allen is charged with four counts of murder in ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists. Dr Eithne Dempsey, and her recent PhD student Dr ...