For example, lab technicians may look at photographs of blood splatter patterns and conduct ballistics tests on bullets found at the crime scene to determine the direction from which a shot was fired.

This facility, one of only four in Minnesota providing DNA testing and forensic serology, plays a crucial role in solving ...

Crime scene investigators, who gather and document evidence at a crime scene, fall under this forensic science umbrella, as do criminalists, who are scientists who primarily work in a laboratory ...