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Vehicle‐assisted suicidal strangulation: A case report and literature review
Vehicle‐assisted suicidal strangulation is an unusual method of suicide where the victim completes suicide by pulling a ligature tied around their neck using the acceleration of the vehicle they are driving. This report describes a case of a 48‐year‐old man who completed suicide ...
A feasibility study of chromatographic methods with mass spectrometry, flame ionization...
This study compares the feasibility of several chromatographic systems, including GC–MS/FID/μECD, GC–MS/MS, and LC–MS/MS for the forensic analysis of trace levels of organic gunshot residue (OGSR). Implementing new methods in forensic laboratories is a complex process fraught wit...
Unintentional fatal overdose of veterinary levamisole in a human subject
Cases of levamisole overdose without coingestants in human subjects are rare. Existing knowledge of human toxicity depends in part on records of adverse events of therapeutic use such as nausea, vomiting, headache, and rarer central nervous system effects. Much of our knowledge a...
Differentiating intentional ketamine use from unintentional exposure as an adulterant...
Recreational ketamine use and related adverse outcomes have been increasing; however, correct diagnostic classification of quantitative oral fluid test results remains challenging, considering the potential for unintentional exposure to ketamine as an adulterant in other drugs. W...
Stakeholders' perspectives on integrating point‐of‐care diagnostics into forensic death...
Unnatural and unexplained deaths present critical challenges to the criminal justice, medico‐legal, and public health systems. This study explored forensic professionals' perspectives on the integration of point‐of‐care (POC) diagnostics into unnatural death investigations i...
Homicide–suicide in three regions of the Czech Republic: A retrospective autopsy‐based...
Homicide–suicide (H–S) is a rare but highly consequential form of fatal violence in which one or more homicides are followed by the perpetrator's suicide. Although H–S has been reported in several countries, systematic forensic data from the Czech Republic remain limited. Th...
Evaluation of bone preparation approaches using length‐based analysis and targeted...
Advances in DNA technology have significantly enhanced the forensic community's ability to develop genetic profiles from unidentified human skeletal remains. However, sampling requires mechanical grinding of hard tissues before DNA isolation. This processing can compromise g...
New York State's evidential oral fluid testing program
Oral fluid is a viable alternative to traditional sample matrices used in driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) casework. Oral fluid offers several advantages including rapid collection relative to the time of incident, ease of collection, and the ability to detect all rout...
First record of the forensically important genus Protopiophila Duda (Diptera: Piophilidae)...
The family Piophilidae is of significant forensic importance due to its association with late‐stage decomposition; however, the Korean piophilid fauna remains poorly studied, lacking comprehensive morphological and molecular data. This study reports the first record of the genus ...
Relationships between human tibia diaphysis shape and experimental injury outcomes
Interpretation is central to skeletal trauma analysis; however, the influence of intrinsic skeletal variation, such as long bone shape, on injury is not fully understood. While previous studies have emphasized extrinsic variables such as loading rate, direction, and number of imp...
Global interlaboratory study: Assessing consistency and accuracy for determining source of...
Images containing faces, body parts, vehicles, weapons, clothing, luggage, furniture, landscapes, and buildings are routinely sent to forensic laboratories for comparison. Trained forensic practitioners offer an opinion regarding a common source or a different source. Results fro...
Study on the thermal damage traces of common textile fibers after simulated transient...
Gas explosions often result in the loss of biological evidence. This is due to transient thermal exposure and extreme destructiveness. Such conditions pose significant challenges to the identification of suspects and the reconstruction of their behavior. Clothing fibers act as di...
Evaluating the use of a novel expert system for interpretation of media authentication...
The evolution of artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of hyper‐realistic synthetic images and videos, significantly complicating the authentication of media evidence. Many algorithmic approaches to media authentication have proven ineffective in digital forensics, par...
Area of origin analysis for expirated patterns using HemoVision
Although bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) can be performed on various types of patterns, there is a lack of research looking into whether the area of origin (AO) can be determined for expirated patterns. Expirated patterns are formed when blood is pushed out of an opening in the...
Illegal electric fencing acting as a death trap in a suspected homicide
Electrocution fatalities most commonly occur in domestic or occupational settings. When such deaths are found in remote outdoor locations, they often raise suspicion of homicide or deliberate body disposal. Deaths due to illegal electric fencing are rare and usually accidental, o...
Not a firearm: A case report of a fatal penetrating pseudo‐ballistic neck injury from...
Fatal injuries caused by defective airbag inflators are increasingly recognized as a distinct forensic and medicolegal issue. We describe the case of a 51‐year‐old male driver who was transported by emergency medical services following a low‐speed frontal collision with a palm tr...
Deep learning in image forgery: A systematic review for risk of bias (RoB)
Image forgery (IF) is a critical issue that can lead to the misinterpretation of visual information. Conventional strategies for IF detection are primarily manual feature‐based and therefore require further analysis. Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown a positive impact in the...
A forensic evaluation method of stable diffusion‐generated images using feature‐based...
With the increasing realism of artificial intelligence (AI)‐generated images from Stable Diffusion and similar models, forensic practitioners face significant challenges in image authenticity verification. This study proposes a feature‐based likelihood ratio model based on deep l...
ASTM E1732-25e1 Standard Terminology Relating to Forensic Sciences
