Blood Will Tell
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband, Joe Bryan, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
Joe Bryan was released from prison earlier this week.
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband, Joe Bryan, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
Joe Bryan was released from prison earlier this week.
A father took his 10-year-old fishing. She fell in the water and drowned. It was a tragic accident—then he was charged with murder.
Jordan Smith The Intercept Sep 2018 40min Permalink
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
Pamela Colloff ProPublica May 2018 45min Permalink
The many problems with a common forensic technique called “pattern-matching” — comparisons of bite marks, tool marks, hairs, shoe prints, tire tracks, or fingerprints.
Meehan Crist, Tim Requarth The Nation Feb 2018 45min Permalink
An elite group of forensic scientists, charged with finding hidden human remains, nears retirement age.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Oct 2017 Permalink
A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ’80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to “one of the unlikeliest murder suspects in the city’s history.”
Matthew McGough The Atlantic Jun 2011 35min Permalink
The people who go missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and the people who attempt to identify their remains.
Maria Sacchetti Boston Globe Jul 2014 25min Permalink
One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.
Rachel Nuwer Slate Jun 2014 10min Permalink
How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.
Radley Balko The Huffington Post Jan 2013 30min Permalink
Controversy over the alleged gold standard of forensic evidence.
Michael Specter New Yorker May 2002 30min Permalink