"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 ...

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

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 ...

Elauna Hicks, a May MTSU graduate who majored in anthropology and minored in forensic anthropology, came back as a guide for the camp. Not knowing the career path she wanted to take in college, Hicks ...

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 ...

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 ...