November 6 will mark the ninth anniversary of the death of my nephew, Charles. He was shot three times in the stomach while waiting for some friends to return to a house in which they had been hanging ...

Since the dawn of modern fingerprinting, lifting prints from bullet casings has been thought to be impossible due to damage caused by the intense temperatures, gas, and friction of firing a gun. A new ...

The White House said this week that President Bush “has reservations” about a proposal to gather “fingerprints” from every new gun manufactured in America. Some in Congress are advocating expanding a ...

WASHINGTON — The sparse evidence available to investigators in the Washington-area sniper shootings has thrown new attention on proposals to create a national system for linking bullets recovered at ...

Well, the John Bond way that is. Bond, the head of forensics at the Northamptonshire Police in the UK, has devised a way to fingerprint bullets with electricity. He discovered that the extreme heat ...

Fort Lauderdale announced a new initiative on Tuesday that officials say will help track down gun-related suspects who wreak havoc downtown. The Biden administration and the Department of Justice ...

Jacksonville' is joining the ranks of cities like Denver, New Orleans and Atlanta by adding the latest ballistic crime fighting tool. The Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) allows ...

OGDEN — Forensic experts testified Friday why they found no definitive fingerprint or DNA evidence to tie murder suspect Keshaun Puente or any other person to the shooting death of Denero Snider.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In October of 1904, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department became the first in the nation to create a fingerprint bureau (inspired in part by ...