Violent crime in the United States declined 6% last year, according to statistics compiled by the FBI and released Monday.
Details from the autopsy of a woman found hanging from a California mansion -- including exact words of a painted message -- bolster her family's contention that she didn't commit suicide as authorities determined, the family's lawyer says.
Did Rebecca Zahau commit suicide or was she murdered?
Norwegian massacre suspect Anders Behring Breivik's purported 1,500-page manifesto paints a picture of a deliberative, driven killer -- not a rambling crazy person, criminologists said Tuesday.
It's becoming a familiar story and a welcome one: Violent crime continues to decline.
Criminologist Casey Jordan talks about serial killings on Long Island, New York. What do clues say about the killer?
Andre and Korisha Shipley were still mourning the death of their 17-year-old son, Jesse, when two months after his funeral, they received shocking news from students of the same Staten Island, New York, high school Jesse had attended. Members of a forensic science club on a field trip to the morgue couldn't believe what they noticed on a cabinet in the medical examiner's lab.
The parents of a teen who died in 2005 learn the medical examiner kept their son's brain. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Americans may be bleak about the overall state of the country, but there's cause for optimism in at least one area: the fight against crime.
A South Carolina coroner confirms the children found dead in a submerged car were indeed strangled to death.
Unemployment. Single parenthood. Taking care of multiple young children. Millions of people deal with these challenges every day, but in some cases, they add up to something unthinkable: turning against one's own child.
Despite one of the worst economic climates in recent history, the number of bank crimes fell sharply last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday.
The suspect in the killing of four Seattle-area police officers, was shot and killed after a 2-day manhunt.
The ambush-style shootings of four police officers in Seattle allegedly by a suspect whose prison sentence had been commuted likely will affect the way states approach clemency, according to professors, criminologists and attorneys.
The head of a Texas agency investigating whether a faulty arson probe led to a man's 2004 execution said Tuesday he's not a "political pawn," but would not say when the controversial investigation will move forward.
For more than two hours on a dark Saturday night, as many as 20 people watched or took part as a 15-year-old California girl was allegedly gang raped and beaten outside a high school homecoming dance, authorities said.
Author Patricia Cornwell talks about her new book 'The Scarpetta Factor' the 17th in the series.
It has been 20 years since best-selling crime writer Patricia Cornwell began work on her first novel in the series chronicling the cases of forensic analyst Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
The reputed hideout of infamous mobster Al Capone sold to Chippewa Valley Bank of Wisconsin for $2.6 million, according to CNN affiliate KBJR affiliate in Duluth, Minnesota.
Al Capone's legend of bootlegging, gangland slayings and tax evasion lives on more than 60 years after the Chicago gangster's death. Now comes a footnote that is a sign of the times: foreclosure.
An investigation into claims that faulty evidence led Texas to execute an innocent man in 2004 was at a "crucial point" when the state's governor replaced three of its members this week, one of the three said Thursday.
CNN.com's blogger bunch discusses the difference between a suspect and a person of interest.
It's a familiar scenario: A major crime is committed. Police investigate possible leads while the media asks for information. Soon, authorities say they have a "person of interest."
Here we are again, nearing the end of yet another summer and the start of a new school year. By now, you (hopefully) know where you'll be attending college this fall, but do you know what you'll study?
Four police officers were arrested by the special investigation team probing the alleged rape and murder of two young Muslim women in India-administered Kashmir Wednesday evening, a senior police officer confirmed.
"They want to determine if anyone else was involved" in the actor's death, attorney Mark Geragos tells PEOPLE
Nancy Grace producer Rupa Mikkilineni updates the case of 13-year-old Kathy Gloddy, found raped and killed 38 years ago.
It was a typical November day in 1971 when an eighth-grader left her house in a sleepy New Hampshire town with her pet dog, Tasha, in tow.
Four years ago, Roger and Jane Hargens were told that their 24-year-old son, Ryan, was dead. It was a gunshot wound to the head, and it was a suicide; at least that's how it was originally labeled.
Those slick, intricate tests used by forensic investigators on shows like "CSI" look infallible, but that is the stuff of television. In the real world, forensic tests are much more ambiguous and rarely demonstrate a definite tie between an individual and a crime.
A controversial ranking of U.S. cities' crime rates indicates New Orleans, Louisiana, has the worst crime rate, while a New York exurb has the lowest.
When Helen Smith had a heart attack at age 37, she was in shock. She was young, healthy and in tip-top shape. There'd been no warning signs. She had no family history of heart disease.
For the first time since Casey Anthony's murder indictment, Jeff Hopkins, who is named in her indictment, speaks out!
CNN's Campbell Brown talks about the challenges the vice presidential candidates face going into Thursday's debate.
Sen. Joe Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will face off for their first and only debate in the presidential race Thursday night, an event pitting a political veteran against a political newcomer.
Log 4: Making the pieces fit June-July 2008
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter isn't going to answer questions at R. Kelly's child pornography trial
Federal researchers say they've developed a human identification test that's faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing
Mystery bones
updated: Mon Feb 18 2008 08:26:00
Forensics expert Heather Walsh-Haney talks to CNN's John Zarrella about how bones can give clues about who a person is.
Developments in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson from July 5-7, 1995
On the lower portion of Dr. Henry Lee's Web site, under a link to his 85-page curriculum vitae and adjacent to a list of his five honorary Ph.D. degrees, is a section entitled "The Winner's Attitude."
The high-profile lawyer who once headed Phil Spector's legal team walked away from his defense entirely Monday after the music legend refused to let him deliver a closing argument at his murder trial.
Portuguese investigators head to Britain as a witness speaks out about Madeleine McCann. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
A new study names Detroit as the most dangerous city in America, but officials there aren't taking the news lying down.
Fire forensicsupdated: Fri Oct 26 2007 11:40:00
CNN's Anderson Cooper joins Doug Lannon of Cal Fire to learn how to determine the origin of a fire.
The murder of global reggae icon Lucky Dube is another reminder of the violence fueled by ongoing social inequality
Time.com: CSI Too Close to Homeupdated: Tue Jun 05 2007 15:20:00
Sure, forensic science makes great TV, but Texas residents oppose a plan for a "body farm" in their neighborhood
Lance Corporal Ted "Joey" Boudreaux Jr. was bored.
Murders in the United States jumped 4.8 percent last year, and overall violent crime was up 2.5 percent for the year, marking the largest annual increase in crime in the United States since 1991, according to figures released Monday by the FBI.
When the CEO of a small San Diego publishing company started receiving threatening e-mails from an anonymous address, he had a pretty good idea that someone in the company's IT department was involved. The CEO called his lawyers, who in turn called Peter Garza, a computer forensics expert and founder of EvidentData, an investigative firm in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
FSB: Digital Detectivesupdated: Wed Mar 01 2006 00:01:00
When the CEO of a small San Diego publishing company started receiving threatening e-mails from an anonymous address, he had a pretty good idea that someone in the company's IT department was invol...
The U.S. military has identified the body of a World War II airman that climbers found in October at the bottom of a glacier in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
A decaying address book. A black plastic comb. A dirty penny.
The real CSIupdated: Thu May 05 2005 10:06:00
The body dominated the room: his hands and ankles bound with a belt, a sheet over his head and a drop of blood on the back of his shirt. For investigators, his corpse held some -- but not all -- of the clues to solve his disturbing murder.
John Mallery says his current job as a computer forensic expert has some parallels to his former calling as a comedian, juggler and knife thrower.
When Todd Matchett went to prison for second-degree murder in 1986, a fellow inmate threaded a guitar string through a Bic pen, attached it to a cassette Walkman motor, and tattooed the grim reaper on Matchett's left shoulder.
Forensics experts say as many as seven suspected Islamic terrorists linked to the Madrid train bombings may have been killed in an explosion as police raided their hideout Saturday.
In 1998, Tampa attorney David Maney faced a quandary. His client had been granted ownership of a cockatoo in the course of divorce proceedings. Both members of the couple had grown attached to the ...
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by Richard Rhodes Knopf, 371 pages
THERE IS NO SAFE PLACE ANYMORE. That fearful message is driven home by the endless rat-a-tat-tat of pointless carnage that marks us as one of the world's most violent societies. Listen to the grim ...
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