Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even now, as a free man, Keith Harward finds it hard to explain what it was like to sit in a courtroom, on trial for a rape and ...

Against the backdrop of last week's Congressional hearing into the future of forensic science, researchers from the University at Buffalo's (UB) Laboratory for Forensic Odontology Research in the ...

In a case that could open an inquiry into the scientific validity of bite mark evidence, two Illinois dentists are suing an expert odontologist for allegedly defaming them after he used a rape case ...

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But bite mark analysis really made it big 25 years later, during the 1979 trial of serial killer Ted Bundy. A year before, Bundy had gone on a murderous spree in Florida, killing two women and leaving ...

Even now, as a free man, Keith Harward finds it hard to explain what it was like to sit in a courtroom, on trial for a rape and murder he knew he didn’t commit, watching someone considered an expert ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man still awaits execution based on their testimony. This article was produced ...