They specialize in determining the causes of sudden, unexpected or violent deaths. But according to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. is facing a critical shortage of these professionals.

Long before Jeff Tomberlin, Ph.D., professor of forensic entomology in the Texas A&M Department of Entomology, helped investigators solve murders with maggots, he was just a kid glued to the TV ...

(InvestigateTV) — Russ Marty was in his 30s the last time he saw his uncle, Jack Langeneckert, who went missing in 1982. “At the time we thought that he probably ran away somewhere,” Marty, now in his ...

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. — The Westmoreland County Detective Bureau’s Forensic Services Division has achieved national accreditation from the ANSI National Accreditation Board. The accreditation was ...

Anthropology is the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans. Forensic anthropologists are trained physical anthropologists who apply ...