UT-Austin journalism teacher Kate Winkler Dawson joins us to talk about an early criminologist who developed the forensic science we still use today: blood splatter evidence and fingerprinting, among other techniques.
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The Future Of Crime Investigation
This hour, we’ll talk about phenotyping – and a host of other CSI innovations – with National Geographic online science editor Erika Engelhaupt. The story “Beyond Reasonable Doubt” appears in the July issue of the magazine.
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Watching The Detectives
We’ll talk this hour about how the Internet is fueling the world of DIY CSI with the author of “The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases.”
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