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Air Force equipment found with Michael Blassie

Michael Blassie: unknown no more

PCR DNA tests, Bloodsworth case, 1993

Rescued from death row: Kirk Bloodsworth and the Innocence Project

Liliana Pereyra, mid-1970s

Making the "disappeared" visible

Peter M. Hoffman, Coroner, Cook County, examines a hammer used to murder George Dietz, April 18, 1913

Coroner vs. medical examiner

Entomological evidence, September 22, 1986

Insect testimony

Alec Jeffreys at work in his University of Leicester laboratory, 1985

Alec Jeffreys and the Pitchfork murder case: the origins of DNA profiling

Instruments used in President Abraham Lincoln's autopsy, April 15, 1865

The autopsy of President Abraham Lincoln

The needle used to sew up McKinley's wound, 1901

Could X-rays have saved President William McKinley?

Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila, about 1835

Toxicology on trial: Mathieu Orfila and the Lafarge murder case

Skull no. 2, photograph B, 1935

The Buck Ruxton "Jigsaw Murders" case

Dr. Brian Andresen's lab notebook, May 1, 1999-December 11, 2001

A "lab of last resort" solving the Efren Saldivar case

Performing the analysis, 1856

Toxicology in the dock: Alfred Swaine Taylor and the William Palmer murder trial

Professor Doremus Exhibiting the Chemical Apparatus used in Detecting the Existence of Poison at
the Trial of the Rev. George B. Vosburgh at Jersey City, May 22, 1878

Making Toxicology Visible: the Vosburgh poisoning case

Fingerprint card, Francisca Rojas (Individual dactiloscópica de Francisca Rojas), 1892

Juan Vucetich and the origins of forensic fingerprinting

Thomas Wakley, M.D., about 1840

Coroner Thomas Wakley and the Hounslow incident