Forensics

A forensic nurse death investigator for Denton County, went to get her thermometer out of her bag to check a body surface temperature — only for the batteries to fall to the floor.

David Rojas was found guilty after forensic genetic genealogy linked him to Mary Kelly's 1989 murder and rape in Oak Cliff.

David Rojas is accused of strangling and raping Oak Cliff resident Mary Hague Kelly in 1989.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office is applying for a federal grant to help them do more forensic genetic genealogical analysis to identify people that remain unidentified, in some cases for years.

District attorneys throughout Texas haven’t prosecuted low-level marijuana offenses for the past few months because their forensic labs can’t tell the...

With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky,…

Crime scene DNA has traditionally been used to link a victim to a criminal. With a new process known as phenotyping, though, investigators are using that…

New technology out of Texas is making it harder for criminals to cover their tracks. A University of North Texas chemistry professor has created a device…