Early in her career, Susan Ely helped put a serial killer behind bars. It was the late 1990s, and she was working as a fellow at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) of the City of New York.

As Lawrence County prepares for the eventual retirement and unlikely replacement of Dr. Donald Habbe, forensic pathologist at ...

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) -- A forensic facility under construction in Williamson County may help to address the growing number of autopsies. The county currently does not have a medical examiner, ...

More than six decades after the death of Marilyn Monroe, new attention is being paid to the circumstances surrounding her final moments—and to what might have been missed during her 1962 autopsy. A ...

A young mother was found dead 30 years ago under strange circumstances. Now, a mysterious message and concerns about the accuracy of an autopsy are forcing the case back open. “My whole life changed ...

One term for misconceptions that people have about forensic evidence is “the CSI effect,” referring to the idea that watching true crime shows makes jurors expect to see high-tech forensic evidence in ...

Thomas Noguchi was 13 years old when an autopsy—a rare medical novelty at the time—exonerated his father from a medical malpractice accusation. A bereaved family accused his father of leaving a cotton ...