Forensics

Socialite Jasmine Hartin has been charged with manslaughter by negligence after, she says, accidentally shooting police superintendent Henry Jemmott in Belize. Journalist Tom Leonard recently… Audio

Scottish forensic anthropologist and anatomist Professor Dame Sue Black has pioneered ways to use an image of someone's hands (often a criminal suspect's only visible physical feature) as a means of… Audio

ESR is using a laser to scan crime scenes, allowing police and juries to 'fly through' the scene long after the event. Video, Audio

A new method of finding DNA in fingerprints could take some of the guesswork out of crime scene analysis. Audio

A team of ESR scientists have recently received New Zealand's most valuable science prize for the development of STRmix - scientific software that is used to interpret DNA material from a crime scene… Audio

An ESR software package that analyses complex crime scene samples containing DNA from multiple people, has won the 2018 Prime Minister's Science Prize. Video, Audio

2018 Prime Minister's Science Prizes awarded to crime-busting software used in forensics labs, a climatologist, a young physicist, a primary teacher and a bioengineer. Video, Audio

Engineer Mark Jermy has been helping forensics investigators understand the science behind blood spatter evidence at crime scenes. Audio

Always expect the unexpected from the dead, says Palmerston North pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp. He tells interesting tales from his 30-year career – which includes attending Mark Lundy's Privy… Audio

Canterbury University academics say brain wave analysis could revolutionise criminal investigations by proving whether people are lying or telling the truth about what they know. Police are backing… Audio

Dr Park Dietz has been named as one of the top ten psychiatrists of all time. He is a forensic psychiatrist who has consulted and testified in some of the US's highest profile criminal cases including… Audio