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Forensic identification is the application of forensic science, or "forensics", and technology to identify specific objects from the trace evidence they leave, often at a crime scene or the scene of an accident. Forensic means "for the courts".
People can be identified by their fingerprints. This assertion is supported by the philosophy of friction ridge identification, which states that friction ridge identification is established through the agreement of friction ridge formations, in sequence, having sufficient uniqueness to individualize.
Friction ridge identification is also governed by four premises or statements of fact:
Forensic Files is an American documentary-style series that reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and even outbreaks of illness. The show was originally broadcast on TLC, narrated by Peter Thomas, and produced by Medstar Television, in association with truTV Original Productions. It broadcast 400 episodes since its debut on TLC in 1996 as Medical Detectives. Reruns shown on HLN were initially retitled Mystery Detectives before settling with the main title of the show in 2014.
A version of the series was broadcast on the British Channel Five, under the name Murder Detectives.
The series began on the TLC Network in April 1996 as Medical Detectives. Old episodes of Medical Detectives now air on TruTV under the Forensic Files label. Overseas, the show airs under these two titles, and others, on various channels in over 100 countries. It is distributed by CABLEready.
Premiering just as the O. J. Simpson murder trial had focused attention on the world of DNA and forensics, Medical Detectives became a hit. It was one of the first of the popular forensic science shows. A few years later, Court TV acquired rights to broadcast the show and it quickly became the cornerstone of their primetime schedule, increasing its annual production run to 42 episodes. The show was retained after the network was renamed TruTV in 2008.
The Shroud of Turin or Turin Shroud (Italian: Sindone di Torino) is a length of linen cloth bearing the image of a man that is believed by some Christians to be the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth. Three radiocarbon dating tests in 1988 have concluded that the age of the cloth only goes back to the Middle Ages. The shroud is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, northern Italy.
The shroud is respected by many Christians of several traditions, including Catholics and Protestants. The Catholic Church has neither formally endorsed nor rejected the shroud, but in 1958 Pope Pius XII approved of the image in association with the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. More recently, Pope Francis and his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI have both described the Shroud of Turin as "an icon" and Pope John Paul II called the Shroud "a mirror of the Gospel".
The origins of the shroud and its images are the subject of intense debate among theologians, historians and researchers. Diverse arguments have been made in scientific and popular publications claiming to "prove" that the cloth is the authentic burial shroud of Jesus, based on disciplines ranging from chemistry to biology and medical forensics to optical image analysis. In 1988, a radiocarbon dating test dated the shroud from the Middle Ages, between the years 1260 and 1390, which is consistent with the shroud's first known exhibition in France in 1357. Aspects of the 1988 test continue to be debated, but all the various challenges to the dating result have been rejected by experts based on scientific analyses of shroud evidence.
West Memphis is the largest city in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 26,245 at the 2010 census, ranking it as the state's 18th largest city, behind Bella Vista. It is part of the Memphis metropolitan area, and is located directly across the Mississippi River from Memphis.
Native Americans lived in the Mississippi River Valley for at least 10,000 years, although much of the evidence of their presence has been buried or destroyed. The Indians of the Mississippian Period were the last native inhabitants of the West Memphis area. Mound City Road, located within the eastern portion of the West Memphis city limits, has a marker indicating that the villages of Aquixo (Aquijo) or Pacaha were in the area. Several mounds are still visible.
Explorers from both Spain and France visited the area near West Memphis. Among those explorers were Hernando de Soto and his men from Spain and Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet from France. By the time French hunters and explorers entered the region, the Mississippian towns and other settlements had been abandoned. The original site of West Memphis came from Spanish land grants issued during the 1790s. Grants were given to Benjamin Fooy, John Henry Fooy, and Isaac Fooy in the Hopefield (Crittenden County) area and to William McKenney in the Bridgeport-West Memphis area.
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com A young woman disappeared after working the late shift in a department store. Days later, her body was found in an isolated ravine. Tiny clues told police a great deal about the killer. He would own olive-colored carpeting, a white blanket, and distinctive bullets made from wax, not lead. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 38.
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://www.filmrise.com The murder of couple Raquel Rivera & Jay Johnson was first believed to be the result of a drug deal gone bad. However, no drugs are found in the house and the victims' blood isn't present on the clothing of the suspects. Evidence from the couple's dog eventually ties one of the murderers to the scene. This is one of the first cases where dog DNA was used. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 17.
Dr Angela Gallop is chief executive at Forensic Access and a renowned forensic scientist. She has worked on many high-profile forensic investigations - including the murder of Stephen Lawrence - where painstaking laboratory analysis on trace evidence taken from the scene of a crime helped to provide key evidence in court. She reveals the variety of evidence investigated in the laboratory, from textile fibres, blood stain patterns and DNA profiling, and explains how lab analysis on evidence in the Coastal Path murder case helped to secure a conviction in court. Skip to: 0:50 Analysing textile fibres 1:55 Blood spatter and blood pattern analysis 4:05 DNA profiling Part of Forensics: the anatomy of crime exhibition: http://wellcomecollection.org/forensics Follow us on Twitter: http://twit...
In this episode of SciShow, we’re going to investigate a murder. But first, we’re going to have to learn all about forensics, the use of science in criminal law -- and the real-life version is a little different from what you might see on TV. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Justin Lentz, David Campos, Chris Peters, and Fatima Iqbal. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhe...
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://www.filmrise.com The murder of 9-year-old Jessica Knott is investigated. Investigators use a garbage bag to connect suspect James Edward Crow, Jr. to the crime. Originally aired as Season 7, Episoide 29.
Five cases involving unusual forensic evidence.
Now you can see for yourself what really happened on November 22, 1963. This amazing documentary will take you back in time to Dealey Plaza where you will become a witness to the "crime of the century." Robert J. Groden is acknowledged as the world’s foremost authority on the photographic evidence relating to JFK’s assassination. Mr. Groden was technical advisor to Oliver Stone’s JFK. Here, for the first time, are his optically enhanced films and photographs from that dark day and the investigation and cover-up that followed. Mastered from Mr. Groden’s original materials.
Doug Hagmann joins Alex Jones to discuss new information from his sources in the FBI and DC Police Force that confirm ties between Seth Rich and Wikileaks. Start mining ETH/LTC/BTC/XMR : https://goo.gl/zUt4BU Buy Bitcoin and Litecoin in 5min! : https://goo.gl/Q9bXXp
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com Early one morning in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, a motorcyclist discovered the body of a young woman. She had been beaten, bound, strangled and possibly raped. The nearby plants would tell investigators more about the killer than any other single piece of evidence. Originally aired as Season 1, Episode 5.
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com A mother of two young children was found dead in her bedroom. It seemed she had killed herself; there were suicide notes near her body and a pistol was in her hand. Her death was ruled a suicide – but when investigators discovered she had almost died in a house fire three years earlier, they decided to take a deeper look at the evidence. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 8.
Agosto Beinte-Uno (August Twenty-One) is an investigative documentary on the murder of Filipino political figure Benigno Aquino. This event paved the way for the first People Power, the downfall of the Marcos administration and the first woman president of the Philippines (his wife). The color of the Aquino party is yellow, and that's the reason we used it in our palette for the program. Since the approach of the program is based on forensic evidence, we acquired copies of important documents related to the event, and used that as the main materials for the show open. Client: ABS-CBN NCAD Direction & Animation: The Acid House Music: Dodoy Ongleo AUGUST 2013
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley - also known as the West Memphis Three -- were teenagers when they were wrongfully convicted in 1994 of the murders of three children in West Memphis Arkansas. As highlighted in the landmark HBO Documentary "Paradise Lost," the investigation of these murders and subsequent arrests and trials were tragically mishandled, and amounted to little more than a witch hunt. To date, not one piece of substantial evidence, physical or otherwise, has connected the three men to the crime. Now, after spending 15 years in prison, new DNA and forensic evidence has proven the innocence of the West Memphis Three. This 20-minute video explores the new evidence in the case and gives Damien Echols a chance to speak in his own defense. Compiled from new defen...
In this video-essay contemplative images, confessions, theoretical reflections, and an enigmatic electronic musical motif merge to form a meditation on border life between the United State & Mexico. Based on both years of ethnographic work in Tijuana and an ascetic shooting schedule of 24hrs, the artist and anthropologist refracts her own experience in the region by attempting to sculpt a textured living portrait of the Wall that separates Tijuana and San Diego. Images of a rusty wall, unruly topography, decaying surveillance structures, furtive moments of undocumented migrant crossings, and dystopian landscapes are interwoven with a mournful voice-over enunciated from a different time and place. The fate of the Wall is sealed: its remains are to be collected like forensic evidence by a v...
Clues are everywhere, if you just know where to look. Representing that idea visually we set out to create six unique packages, all based on iconic crime and mystery scenarios, where the CLOO logo lived in place of a piece of evidence at a crime scene. Integrating live-action footage with completely CG environments, the CLOOs ran the gamut from gold bars in a bank robbery to USB drives in a computer hacking to microscopic evidence in a forensics lab; all situations a mystery-obsessed viewer would feel at home in.
Late in 2010, the Sleuth channel decided to follow the lead of their big sister network, SyFy, in rebranding themselves as something more unique and ownable. A couple of conversations later and we were teaming up with the good people at USA to develop and unveil the new home for all your crime and mystery programming: CLOO! The concept was simple: clues are everywhere, if you just know where to look. Representing that idea visually we set out to create six unique packages, all based on iconic crime and mystery scenarios, where the CLOO logo lived in place of a piece of evidence at a crime scene. Integrating live-action footage with completely CG environments, the CLOOs ran the gamut from gold bars in a bank robbery to USB drives in a computer hacking to microscopic evidence in a forensics...
Shroud Of Turin In 3-D - Dr. Petrus Soons research site http://shroud3d.com/ Turin Shroud Enters 3D Age - Front and Back 3-D images - articles and videos https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1gDY4CJkoFedewMG94gdUk1Z1jexestdy5fh87RwWAfg This following recent video revealed a very surprising holographic image that was found on the Shroud: Turin Shroud Hologram Reveals The Words 'The Lamb' - short video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4041205 This following site has several other surprising findings that were found by the holographic method: Shroud in 3-D - FINDINGS IN THE THREE DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS http://shroud3d.com/findings/findings-in-the-three-dimensional-materials further notes: Shroud Of Turin - Photographic Negative - 3D Hologram - The Lamb - video http://www.metacafe.com/wa...
*-If you want to preview or to read from this video, use pause//play button. Fore more detailed view, visit the source of this video capture, go directly to: Yes, I'm saying that it's all lies http://gagnauga.is/index.php?Fl=Greinar&ID;=169 01.09.2011 Yes. You heard what I said. All of it. It's all a bunch of lies. I know that it is a shocking claim to many, that our trusted officials in concert with our reliable mass media actually participated in deliberate deception designed to get us to accept war, but deal with it. I'm making it. Our biggest moral obligation is ensuring that wars are not waged against people under false pretenses. War is the most disgusting and horrible thing you can inflict on any person. As you read this article I am sure you will find there are a number of thi...
in this episode we examine in detail the construction of a probabilistic model for a forensics problem, to measure the strength of evidence that two samples are from the same person.
2 years is way too long for Julian Assange - to be subjected to jail, house arrest and after Asylum was granted, languishing with a chronic lung infection in the Ecuadorian Embassy for over six months. Dead silence now from Swedish Prosecutor Marianne Ny, who says she wants to ask him a few questions, but will not do so in any way that avoids the risk of him being extradited to the US. Her case is a shambles. No one's chromosomal DNA was found on the condom submitted as 'evidence' by Anna Ardin and Sofja Wilen refused to sign her statement when she discovered what Ardin and her policewoman friend Irmeli Krans were cooking up for Assange. Even though the forensic exculpatory evidence has been available for well over two years, the British appeal process has excluded the details of the cas...
Selected for broadcast on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH ( www.sfe.tv ) an independent Art TV Station on the European Cable Network which broadcasts a 24/7 art program in France and parts of Germany reaching 10 million viewers. The film will also be promoted at the channel's permanent installation at Palais de Tokyo in Paris which is similar to an extended museum space. Screenings will take place for a period of 12 months from September 2012 onwards. http://www.sfe.tv/artists/maske.php?id=673 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Non Place: Passageway' was screened as part of an academic paper presented at the Affective Landscapes conference at Derby University 25-26 May 2012 http://www...
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com A young woman disappeared after working the late shift in a department store. Days later, her body was found in an isolated ravine. Tiny clues told police a great deal about the killer. He would own olive-colored carpeting, a white blanket, and distinctive bullets made from wax, not lead. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 38.
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://www.filmrise.com The murder of couple Raquel Rivera & Jay Johnson was first believed to be the result of a drug deal gone bad. However, no drugs are found in the house and the victims' blood isn't present on the clothing of the suspects. Evidence from the couple's dog eventually ties one of the murderers to the scene. This is one of the first cases where dog DNA was used. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 17.
Dr Angela Gallop is chief executive at Forensic Access and a renowned forensic scientist. She has worked on many high-profile forensic investigations - including the murder of Stephen Lawrence - where painstaking laboratory analysis on trace evidence taken from the scene of a crime helped to provide key evidence in court. She reveals the variety of evidence investigated in the laboratory, from textile fibres, blood stain patterns and DNA profiling, and explains how lab analysis on evidence in the Coastal Path murder case helped to secure a conviction in court. Skip to: 0:50 Analysing textile fibres 1:55 Blood spatter and blood pattern analysis 4:05 DNA profiling Part of Forensics: the anatomy of crime exhibition: http://wellcomecollection.org/forensics Follow us on Twitter: http://twit...
In this episode of SciShow, we’re going to investigate a murder. But first, we’re going to have to learn all about forensics, the use of science in criminal law -- and the real-life version is a little different from what you might see on TV. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Justin Lentz, David Campos, Chris Peters, and Fatima Iqbal. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhe...
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://www.filmrise.com The murder of 9-year-old Jessica Knott is investigated. Investigators use a garbage bag to connect suspect James Edward Crow, Jr. to the crime. Originally aired as Season 7, Episoide 29.
Five cases involving unusual forensic evidence.
Now you can see for yourself what really happened on November 22, 1963. This amazing documentary will take you back in time to Dealey Plaza where you will become a witness to the "crime of the century." Robert J. Groden is acknowledged as the world’s foremost authority on the photographic evidence relating to JFK’s assassination. Mr. Groden was technical advisor to Oliver Stone’s JFK. Here, for the first time, are his optically enhanced films and photographs from that dark day and the investigation and cover-up that followed. Mastered from Mr. Groden’s original materials.
Doug Hagmann joins Alex Jones to discuss new information from his sources in the FBI and DC Police Force that confirm ties between Seth Rich and Wikileaks. Start mining ETH/LTC/BTC/XMR : https://goo.gl/zUt4BU Buy Bitcoin and Litecoin in 5min! : https://goo.gl/Q9bXXp
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com Early one morning in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, a motorcyclist discovered the body of a young woman. She had been beaten, bound, strangled and possibly raped. The nearby plants would tell investigators more about the killer than any other single piece of evidence. Originally aired as Season 1, Episode 5.
Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com A mother of two young children was found dead in her bedroom. It seemed she had killed herself; there were suicide notes near her body and a pistol was in her hand. Her death was ruled a suicide – but when investigators discovered she had almost died in a house fire three years earlier, they decided to take a deeper look at the evidence. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 8.
Agosto Beinte-Uno (August Twenty-One) is an investigative documentary on the murder of Filipino political figure Benigno Aquino. This event paved the way for the first People Power, the downfall of the Marcos administration and the first woman president of the Philippines (his wife). The color of the Aquino party is yellow, and that's the reason we used it in our palette for the program. Since the approach of the program is based on forensic evidence, we acquired copies of important documents related to the event, and used that as the main materials for the show open. Client: ABS-CBN NCAD Direction & Animation: The Acid House Music: Dodoy Ongleo AUGUST 2013
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley - also known as the West Memphis Three -- were teenagers when they were wrongfully convicted in 1994 of the murders of three children in West Memphis Arkansas. As highlighted in the landmark HBO Documentary "Paradise Lost," the investigation of these murders and subsequent arrests and trials were tragically mishandled, and amounted to little more than a witch hunt. To date, not one piece of substantial evidence, physical or otherwise, has connected the three men to the crime. Now, after spending 15 years in prison, new DNA and forensic evidence has proven the innocence of the West Memphis Three. This 20-minute video explores the new evidence in the case and gives Damien Echols a chance to speak in his own defense. Compiled from new defen...
In this video-essay contemplative images, confessions, theoretical reflections, and an enigmatic electronic musical motif merge to form a meditation on border life between the United State & Mexico. Based on both years of ethnographic work in Tijuana and an ascetic shooting schedule of 24hrs, the artist and anthropologist refracts her own experience in the region by attempting to sculpt a textured living portrait of the Wall that separates Tijuana and San Diego. Images of a rusty wall, unruly topography, decaying surveillance structures, furtive moments of undocumented migrant crossings, and dystopian landscapes are interwoven with a mournful voice-over enunciated from a different time and place. The fate of the Wall is sealed: its remains are to be collected like forensic evidence by a v...
Clues are everywhere, if you just know where to look. Representing that idea visually we set out to create six unique packages, all based on iconic crime and mystery scenarios, where the CLOO logo lived in place of a piece of evidence at a crime scene. Integrating live-action footage with completely CG environments, the CLOOs ran the gamut from gold bars in a bank robbery to USB drives in a computer hacking to microscopic evidence in a forensics lab; all situations a mystery-obsessed viewer would feel at home in.
Late in 2010, the Sleuth channel decided to follow the lead of their big sister network, SyFy, in rebranding themselves as something more unique and ownable. A couple of conversations later and we were teaming up with the good people at USA to develop and unveil the new home for all your crime and mystery programming: CLOO! The concept was simple: clues are everywhere, if you just know where to look. Representing that idea visually we set out to create six unique packages, all based on iconic crime and mystery scenarios, where the CLOO logo lived in place of a piece of evidence at a crime scene. Integrating live-action footage with completely CG environments, the CLOOs ran the gamut from gold bars in a bank robbery to USB drives in a computer hacking to microscopic evidence in a forensics...
Shroud Of Turin In 3-D - Dr. Petrus Soons research site http://shroud3d.com/ Turin Shroud Enters 3D Age - Front and Back 3-D images - articles and videos https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1gDY4CJkoFedewMG94gdUk1Z1jexestdy5fh87RwWAfg This following recent video revealed a very surprising holographic image that was found on the Shroud: Turin Shroud Hologram Reveals The Words 'The Lamb' - short video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4041205 This following site has several other surprising findings that were found by the holographic method: Shroud in 3-D - FINDINGS IN THE THREE DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS http://shroud3d.com/findings/findings-in-the-three-dimensional-materials further notes: Shroud Of Turin - Photographic Negative - 3D Hologram - The Lamb - video http://www.metacafe.com/wa...
*-If you want to preview or to read from this video, use pause//play button. Fore more detailed view, visit the source of this video capture, go directly to: Yes, I'm saying that it's all lies http://gagnauga.is/index.php?Fl=Greinar&ID;=169 01.09.2011 Yes. You heard what I said. All of it. It's all a bunch of lies. I know that it is a shocking claim to many, that our trusted officials in concert with our reliable mass media actually participated in deliberate deception designed to get us to accept war, but deal with it. I'm making it. Our biggest moral obligation is ensuring that wars are not waged against people under false pretenses. War is the most disgusting and horrible thing you can inflict on any person. As you read this article I am sure you will find there are a number of thi...
in this episode we examine in detail the construction of a probabilistic model for a forensics problem, to measure the strength of evidence that two samples are from the same person.
2 years is way too long for Julian Assange - to be subjected to jail, house arrest and after Asylum was granted, languishing with a chronic lung infection in the Ecuadorian Embassy for over six months. Dead silence now from Swedish Prosecutor Marianne Ny, who says she wants to ask him a few questions, but will not do so in any way that avoids the risk of him being extradited to the US. Her case is a shambles. No one's chromosomal DNA was found on the condom submitted as 'evidence' by Anna Ardin and Sofja Wilen refused to sign her statement when she discovered what Ardin and her policewoman friend Irmeli Krans were cooking up for Assange. Even though the forensic exculpatory evidence has been available for well over two years, the British appeal process has excluded the details of the cas...
Selected for broadcast on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH ( www.sfe.tv ) an independent Art TV Station on the European Cable Network which broadcasts a 24/7 art program in France and parts of Germany reaching 10 million viewers. The film will also be promoted at the channel's permanent installation at Palais de Tokyo in Paris which is similar to an extended museum space. Screenings will take place for a period of 12 months from September 2012 onwards. http://www.sfe.tv/artists/maske.php?id=673 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Non Place: Passageway' was screened as part of an academic paper presented at the Affective Landscapes conference at Derby University 25-26 May 2012 http://www...
You got the lawyers and establishment
You got the proof
You got public opinion
And it's all the truth
You got first rate witnesses
Straight from the scene
So the only person guilty
In this court is me
You've got forensic evidence
That never lies
You got someone who says
I'm guilty by my eyes
You got lie detectors
That you never use
But I'm the only person here
Who knows the truth
But you never hear my voice
Never listen when I talk
Made your mind up in advance
And I'm going to take that walk
You based your case on circumstance
That's all it was and ever will be
And I never stood a chance
The old boy network's stronger than me
My friends and relations
Never gave up hope
That one day you'd listen
And admit you're wrong
But the old school system
Turns another blind eye
And I'm so unimportant
That I might as well die
And you never hear my voice
Never listen when I shout
You put me in here long ago
And I'm never getting out
Now the truth has been unearthed
And opinion moves my way
You can't hold me in this prison cell
Not even for another day
And you have to hear my voice
Have to listen when I scream
And yet I wonder how you sleep