Antrometric V3.1: Long Bones Into Transparent Stature Evidence
Version 3.1 of Antrometric, the open-source forensic stature estimation tool developed at the International Institute of Forensic Expertise, has been rebuilt from the ground…
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Where Is the Guardian When Justice Loses Its Bearings? Home Searches, Smartphone Seizures and the IT Fundamental Right
A home raid over a social media post raises a longer question about proportionality, the smartphone as the most intimate space a person owns,…
The Perfect Crime: Potassium Chloride and the Forensic Detection Gap
A dinner question turned into a sixty-minute answer: does the perfect crime exist? Its perfection lies not in the perpetrator's skill but in the…
What DNA Actually Is, What It Actually Says, and What It Says About People Who Are Not Even in the Room
A working forensic introduction to DNA profiling: what a forensic profile actually is, how touch DNA travels through secondary and tertiary transfer, how mixture…
The Strange Death of Jeffrey Epstein, Revisited
Six years after his death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the forensic record on Jeffrey Epstein has been substantially altered by the 2025 document…
The Illusion of Objectivity: How Bias Creeps into Forensic Science Before the Analysis Even Begins
A forensic practitioner's account of the cognitive mechanisms that corrupt expert testimony before the analysis begins: confirmation bias, contextual bias, adversarial bias, the Brandon…
How Reliable Is a Fingerprint? The Science, the Technology, the Limits, and What No One Explains Clearly Enough in a Courtroom
Fingerprint evidence is real and its biological foundations are sound. But the gap between what fingerprint evidence can legitimately claim and what it is…
The Skull in the Garden: Hidden Corpses Unveiling Centuries-Old Secrets and Why Modern Forensics Brings the Truth to Light
A Bavarian pool project unearthed a human skull with perimortem gunshot trauma. Radiocarbon dating, AMS, and the bomb pulse show how physics separates archaeology…
The Dark Side of AI: A Growing Threat to Child Protection
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has already revolutionized many aspects of life, but it has also exposed a dark side that demands urgent…
Crime in Transition: A Decade of Dramatic Changes in Germany
Germany has undergone significant changes over the last ten years, which are also reflected in the police crime statistics (PKS). These statistics serve as…