Items Tagged with 'crime scene evidence'

As violence and shooting within Chicago-area expressways continues to increase year-over-year, the Governor, Illinois Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Transportation and Illinois State Police will install 200 cameras in surrounding expressways to help solve crimes.

A team of researchers have identified a way to detect whether a person has touched or ingested cocaine using high-resolution mass spectrometry.

A forensic team in the UK is using a new mass spectrometry technology that could help solve unsolved crimes, according to a news report. 

Latent or hidden fingerprints on guns, knives or shell casings are often the best evidence in court, but getting a clean print is difficult. This new technique enables crime scene investigators to create a negative image of the fingerprint without damaging it.

Left alone in a car for 13 minutes, the $400,000 worth of loose diamonds were missing when the visiting wholesaler returned to his vehicle.