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The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and leading computer forensics company, 7Safe, have just released the latest version of the official guide to computer-based electronic evidence collection.

100 years of fingerprinting is being marked by an exhibition at the place where the first criminal in the UK was convicted on the strength of fingerprint evidence alone.

The Steven Truscott case is among the most high profile and controversial in Canadian legal history. On the 9th June 1959 14 year old Steven Truscott went on a bike ride with his 12 year old classmate Lynne Harper. Two days later, Lynne Harper is found dead, she had been raped and strangled.

In an ancient Inca cemetery just outside Lima, Peru, archeologists made a disturbing discovery: a cluster of skeletons dumped in shallow, hasty graves, victims of brutal injuries. Among the crushed cheekbones and snapped limbs, the scientists find a skull bearing two round puncture holes. Could this be New World's first gunshot victim?

Podiatry is a field of healthcare related to the study and medical treatment of the foot and ankle and it's application in a legal context (Forensic podiatry) is helping to inform criminal investigations by matching criminals to their footprints and footwear.

Science and the Courts: When Certainty Meets Probability is the title of a thought provoking podcast that was first broadcast in 2002 on Quirks & Quarks, the award-winning radio science program produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Very informative and engaging podcast by Dr. David Sweet, director of the internationally renowned Bureau Of Legal Dentistry (BOLD) at the University of British Columbia.

Forensic science is shedding new light on one of the most notorious murder cases in British history. In 1910 American born Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen was found guilty and subsequently hanged for the murder of his wife Cora. Crippen is said to have poisoned Cora, dismembered her body and then buried her remains in the cellar of their London home.

Read a great online forensic science article published on the Scotsman.com website. I was drawn to the piece by its intriguing title "Written in your toenails - the secrets of what you eat and where you live".

The article was based around the fact that the "humble" toenail can reveal a chemical fingerprint which can provide important forensic evidence such as what a person had been eating and drinking prior to their death.