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.

Dr. Werner Spitz, a pathologist whose accounts of the traumatic last moments in some of the most sensational American deaths of the past 60 years figured in cases involving President John F. Kennedy, ...

(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 ...

One Carroll County detective recently completed FBI training as a forensic imaging artist ? and was only one of a dozen worldwide this year to do so. “Some day, we?re going to uncover a body dumped in ...

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 ...

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 ...