They specialize in determining the causes of sudden, unexpected or violent deaths. But according to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. is facing a critical shortage of these professionals.

One Carroll County detective recently completed FBI training as a forensic imaging artist ? and was only one of a dozen worldwide this year to do so. “Some day, we?re going to uncover a body dumped in ...

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. — The Westmoreland County Detective Bureau’s Forensic Services Division has achieved national accreditation from the ANSI National Accreditation Board. The accreditation was ...

Long before Jeff Tomberlin, Ph.D., professor of forensic entomology in the Texas A&M Department of Entomology, helped investigators solve murders with maggots, he was just a kid glued to the TV ...