April 29, 2017
An Early History of Forensic Entomology, 1300-1900 How Insects Started Solving Crimes by Debbie Hadley Updated April 15, 2017 In recent decades, the use of entomology as a tool in forensic investigations has become fairly routine. The field of forensic Read more…
April 23, 2017
Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses By Joshua Levine, Photographs by Christian Als If you’re looking for the middle of Read more…
April 18, 2017
Beastly Justice In the Middle Ages, animals that did bad things were tried in court. Maybe that’s not as crazy as it sounds. By James E. McWilliams In the fall of 1457, villagers in Savigny, France witnessed a sow Read more…
April 10, 2017
A Fingerprint Fable: The Will and William West Case (This story appeared in the November 1987, Vol. 37, No. 11 issue of Identification News, which was the next to the last issue prior to changing publication format and becoming the Read more…
April 6, 2017
Victorian ‘Coffin Torpedoes’ Blasted Would-Be Body Snatchers Grave robbing got more hazardous in the 1880s. By Lucy Tiven APRIL 03, 2017 Patented coffin torpedoes, for all your grave-defending needs! On the night of January 17, 1881, a would-be body snatcher Read more…
April 4, 2017
WITCHCRAFT Witches Allegedly Stole Penises and Kept Them as Pets in the Middle Ages According to a 15th century guide to detecting and eradicating witchcraft, witches were capable of making penises vanish—and some even kept them in nests and Read more…
April 2, 2017
600 year old mystery code cracked by Bedfordshire Professor Solving cryptic codes is something integral to the clandestine worlds of crime and the shady world of spying for centuries. Not all codes where used for nefarious purposes. Some Read more…
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