Identification of Individuals in Video Footage Based on Body Structure and Movement Patterns
In a significant share of forensic caseloads, the question is not what happened but who was there. This is what forensic gait and body…
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Forensic practice meets scientific commentary here, and neither is allowed to stay comfortable for long. This is written from inside the disciplines. Not from a press release. Not from a university office three floors above the evidence.
What you get is long-form: forensic identification, human evolution, neuroscience, digital surveillance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence. Sourced to the primary literature, argued without institutional caution, written by someone who has spent decades in courtrooms, at crime scenes, and in laboratories where the distance between a correct conclusion and a wrong one is measured in someone's freedom.
One thread runs through all of it. Fear is not a substitute for data. And anyone who needs you frightened before their argument can stand has already lost it.
The Ibiza Video: A Journalistic Crime Story
In 2019, two Pulitzer journalists verified the Ibiza footage before publishing it. This is what forensic video authentication involved, and why the result held…
Evidence in the Digital Age: The Legally Secure Use of Screenshots as Evidence
Screenshots are admissible in German civil courts, but without authentication they prove almost nothing. What manipulation-resistant digital evidence documentation actually requires.
At the Heart of the Scandal: My Forensic Analysis of the Strache Video
When Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel asked whether the Ibiza video was real, I spent nights in Munich examining seven hours of material frame…
Mysterious Pupil Dilation in Comparison Photos: Stress or Drugs?
Why pupils appear dilated in defendants comparison photos: stress, stimulants, MDMA, medical causes, and why a wide pupil is not proof of drug use…