Getting an accurate estimate of when someone died is a critical part of forensic investigations. In extremely cold conditions ...

What happens to a dead body in an extremely cold environment? Does it decompose? How do these conditions affect how forensic ...

Saint Louis University's 40-hour Medicolegal Death Investigators Training Course provides individuals with information on conducting scientific, systematic and thorough death scene and telephone ...

According to the statement, the deputy medical examiner concluded their examination at the department's Forensic Science Center on July 14. Simmons' cause of death was certified on Aug. 22.

In 1978, George E. Gantner Jr., M.D., professor of pathology and director of the Division of Forensic and Environmental Pathology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, recognized the need ...

Competition for work in this field can be intense. However, if you have a strong desire to shape the world of justice by using science to solve crime puzzles, then a career in forensic science could ...

Forensic psychopathology is a sub-discipline of forensic psychology that examines psychopathology’s relationship to the legal system. Forensic psychopathologists psychologically assess, diagnose ...

While the forensic scientists who spoke to CBC News didn't think climate change was having drastic effects on death investigations yet, they said the field will need to adapt as things get worse.

the distribution of diagnoses for deaths that occur in custody (cause and manner of death) and the scientific bases for attributing such diagnoses to those deaths; (3) measures (and limitations ...

Does it decompose? How do these conditions affect how forensic scientists understand when the person died? Estimating time of death, also called the post-mortem interval, is a complex task. It plays ...

The Porter County Sheriff’s Department has been called in to investigate the death of a Portage Township ... The family is cooperating and a forensic autopsy also is scheduled.

An autopsy report revealed that 39-year-old Patrick Odale’s death at the Southern Desert ... of law enforcement restraint." Oregon-based forensic pathology expert Michael Freeman, who was ...