Getting to know: A forensic scientist

, October 12, 2011

BY KIRK DOUGAL Times Bulletin Editor kdougal@timesbulletin.com The crime scene investigator walks through the darkened office, the glow from their flashlight reflecting dimly off their $2,000 suit. They hook their hair behind one ear as they lean over the corpse laying on the floor and then search in the dead person’s pocket, all while talking [...]


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DNA testing can leave traces of doubt

, October 12, 2011

By Karen Gutierrez The Cincinnati Enquirer Popular culture puts DNA at the scene of every crime. It’s the smoking gun, the ironclad alibi, the key clue on  Tweet(function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = ‘https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();


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Crime Scene Investigation

, October 12, 2011

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Backstreet castrators

, October 12, 2011

An unsettling glimpse into the world of men who have their testicles removed without medical assistance Tweet(function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = ‘https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();


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Forensic Science Under the Microscope

, November 28, 2010

From lying about your qualifications as an expert witness on the stand to stealing drugs and money from the evidence vault; from not reporting your lab tests results that exonerate a defendant to having rodent infestation in your laboratory, lapses in ethics and judgment of forensic scientists make the news when they happen because people’s freedoms are at stake. Every time one of these incidents is reported, it makes everyone in the field subject to more scrutiny. And as a forensic scientist, I have no problem with that.


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