Detective Ed Adach says footprints, much like fingerprints, have distinct physical characteristics — cuts, nicks, different wear patterns — that are unique to each individual.

"The shoe scraping I got, I remember, was just enough to cover the top of a pencil top, maybe a millimeter tall," said Teri Kun, a scientist at the forensic lab of UC Davis' Veterinary Genetics ...

Footwear marks at the scene of a crime are the second-biggest evidence type behind blood and DNA - and that's exactly why Britain has decided to launch a database of shoe types to aid forensic ...

Although most of our clothes fold and crease with our bodies as we move, our shoes maintain the same shape and appearance pretty much all the time. With that fact in mind, scientists are now ...

Germs on shoes and mobile phones are a good way of tracing criminal suspects, ... Bacteria on shoes could help forensic teams catch suspects Published: May 13, 2015 1:17am EDT.

Australian Prime Minister Is Caught In A Shoe Cover-Up Scott Morrison's office posted a family photo on his website. In it, he's wearing two left shoes.

Shoe fetish killer found experience of murdering and raping 51-year-old mother 'tension releasing', forensic ... with motherhood' as she hits back at critics in racy ELLE cover ...

Shoe dunnit: Burglars being nabbed by new forensic evidence found in their footprints Police keep a database of more than 50,000 past offenders’ shoeprints as well as fingerprints and DNA samples.

Dr. Kona Williams pulls on her crisp white lab coat and points to the number at the top of her locker: 007. She puts on plastic shoe covers and walks into the open-concept autopsy bay, sunlight ...