If you watch CSI or other crime-and-justice-type shows, you’re familiar with the trope of a detective having a breakthrough based on a small piece of evidence like a bite mark. On TV, forensic ...

Jimmie Duncan spent nearly three decades on death row facing execution for a crime that forensic evidence now proves was fabricated. Last month, the Louisiana Supreme Court unanimously upheld the ...

An NBC News investigation reviewed a video that experts said showed a forensic dentist creating bite marks later used against Duncan at trial Prosecutors have reportedly said they still intend to ...

Dr S K Padmakumar has been, for long, the Kerala Police’s go-to forensic odontologist for piecing together dental evidence and bite mark analysis, which can play a crucial role in cracking complex ...

On 8 April 2002 Ray Krone walked out of prison in Yuma, Arizona, having spent 10 years behind bars, including two on death row. His conviction, for stabbing cocktail waitress Kim Ancona to death, was ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a cloudy afternoon. Dr S K Padmakumar was in the courtroom, anxiously awaiting sentencing in the first criminal case he was part of. As soon as the judge made the ruling — ...