June 4, 2017
8 Unusual Deaths From the Victorian Era BY LUKE SPENCER A VIEW OF GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY CIRCA 1870S, GREEN-WOOD INSTAGRAM The Victorians found many unusual ways to meet their demise. Consider Jane Goodwin, a 22-year-old who died in Read more…
May 29, 2017
Was Dr. Crippen Innocent After All? New Forensic Evidence 100 Years After his Execution BY TERRI SUNDQUIST The past few decades have seen amazing advances in forensic science that are instrumental in analyzing DNA evidence to put perpetrators of Read more…
May 27, 2017
The Roman empress who used forensic science to identify her rival’s head BY STRANGEREMAINS on DECEMBER 28, 2016 Image of Lollia Paulina from “Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum” by Guillaume Rouille (1518?-1589). From Wikipedia. In 49 AD, a Roman soldier carried Read more…
May 22, 2017
Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious Case Of Phineas Gage JON HAMILTON Cabinet-card portrait of brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage (1823–1860), shown holding the tamping iron which injured him. It took an explosion and 13 pounds Read more…
May 20, 2017
Who put Bella down the Wych Elm? BY STRANGEREMAINS Photo of “Bella’s” skull found in the Wych Elm. Image credit: Atlas Obscura (Public Domain) When a woman is murdered in the prime of her life and her body is left Read more…
May 15, 2017
Edinburgh’s Mysterious Miniature Coffins In 1836, three Scottish boys discovered a strange cache of miniature coffins concealed on a hillside above Edinburgh. Who put them there—and why? By Mike Dash SMITHSONIAN.COM The “fairy coffins” discovered on Read more…
May 10, 2017
The metal sign leaning against the tree trunk reads: ANTHROPOLOGY RESEARCH FACILITY STATE FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST FOR INFORMATION CALL: DR. WILLIAM BASS by ALIX LAMBERT These simple words, followed by an office and a home phone number, usher one into the Read more…
May 8, 2017
MURDER BY POISON The rise and fall of arsenic. By Joan Acocella In early-nineteenth-century England, a good way to get rid of your husband was arsenic. A medical examiner usually couldn’t tell whether the poison was involved, because the Read more…
May 3, 2017
The Body Of ‘Devil In The White City’ Serial Killer H.H. Holmes Is Being Exhumed BY STEPHEN GOSSETT IN NEWS ON MAY 1, 2017 4:35 PM The most notorious serial killer in Chicago history, H.H. Holmes, Read more…
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…
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