Mesa Forensic Services' senior crime scene specialist Keia Pagenkopf explains how evidence like fingerprints and DNA are processed in her unit.

D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab can once again test latent fingerprints, bringing an agency that was stripped of its accreditation four years ago after errors were discovered in criminal ...

Leaders at the Denver Crime Lab believe the system, dubbed the Latent Print Case Association Program, is the first — and only — such system in the United States.

D.C. is poised to review every case conducted by the Department of Forensic Sciences’ firearms and fingerprint units since the inception of the independent crime lab nearly 10 years ago ...

Thousands of fingerprints lifted by Baltimore police following home and business burglaries and car break-ins over the past several years sit in the city’s crime lab, never analyzed nor proce… ...

The Baltimore Police crime laboratory has a backlog of 11,000 fingerprints collected from crime scenes that it hasn’t analyzed, the department confirmed this week, and it will be another year ...

But now it appears there’s another factor involved: Thousands of fingerprints taken from such crime scenes have done little more than gather dust at the city’s crime lab.

D.C.'s long troubled crime lab can once again test latent fingerprints, bringing an agency that was stripped of its accreditation four years ago after errors were discovered in criminal ...