Tag: forensic

  • The Case of the Viking Bodysnatching

    The Case of the Viking Bodysnatching

    I will admit, I don’t actually read science journals and blogs to find story ideas. It just… happens sometimes. I can usually count on historical accounts of any era to spark some evocative mysterious questions that just beg to be fleshed out. Because there’s no other way to answer some of these long-cold cases than…

  • Forensics at Your Fingertips

    Forensics at Your Fingertips

    I’m actually not talking about fingerprints, today. Although that’s an interesting, and somewhat fraught, topic in forensics, for one very good reason: there is no established minimum. You can, in theory, take a mere three or four points of reference matching an unknown print to a known, and call it identified. That would be silly,…