In a significant breakthrough, scientists at Maynooth University in Ireland have developed a new test that successfully recovers fingerprints from spent bullet casings. This achievement, often ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since the dawn of modern fingerprinting, lifting prints from bullet casings has been thought to be impossible due to damage caused by the intense ...

Anchorage police said last week the Colt Python .357 magnum revolver James Ritchie used to shoot at a APD officer last weekend, was the same gun used to kill five people in the city over the summer.

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When a crime involves gunfire, examination of physical evidence derived from ammunition often yields key pieces of evidence used in the investigation of that crime. Firearms examination focuses on ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In October of 1904, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department became the first in the nation to create a fingerprint bureau (inspired in part by ...