Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death row for murder, ...

Old-School Hair Analysis Is Junk Science. But It Still Keeps People Behind Bars The technique, developed before DNA testing, can’t definitively tie suspects to crime scenes. Try explaining that to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kirk Odom was convicted of a 1981 rape and robbery after a woman identified him as her attacker and an FBI specialist testified that hair on her nightgown was similar to hair on Odom ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death row for murder, he has watched the case against him crumble. DNA evidence prosecutors used to link him to the crime was handled so ...