Episode 191 – Christophe Champod Interview
Eric Ray and Glenn Langenburg are joined for another episode discussing statistics and probabilities by Professor Christophe Champod from the University of Lausanne.
Episode 190 – Gianni Ribeiro Interview (and OSAC)
Eric Ray and Glenn Langenburg interview Australian researcher Gianni Ribeiro at the December 2018 OSAC meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Gianni tells the guys about her research interests studying how juries weigh evidence vs. alibis and other jury studies.
Episode 189 – Henry Swofford Interview
Glenn Langenburg and Eric Ray are joined in-person by Henry Swofford as they discuss his career with the Army Crime Lab and the development of FRStat, a model that produces a similarity score between two compared fingerprints and a ratio of how that score fits into same source or different source distributions.
Episode 188 – Cedric Neumann Interview
Glenn Langenburg and Eric Ray are joined by Cedric Neumann to discuss all things statistical models, probabilities, likelihood ratios, Bayes factors, and more. Cedric discusses his history of research, his history in forensics, and how that’s brought him from Switzerland to the UK to the US.
Episode 187 – Richard Ramirez
Eric Ray and Glenn Langenburg move into a discussion of a new case with the help of special guest Becki Daher. Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, terrorized California in the mid-1980’s before he has caught with the help of fingerprints and new AFIS technology.
How to Dust for Fingerprints
The Smithsonian Channel series: Catching Killers have created an informative video to show how crime scene investigators working on the Night Stalker case try all types of fine, dry...
How Do Fingerprints Form?
How do fingerprints form? Even though many people think it’s random, a lot of it has to do with your genes! Great video, especially for...
How to Compare Fingerprints
The following video from RayForensics.com provides a basic look into how fingerprint comparisons are performed and the level of detail in agreement that needs to...
Finding Patterns in Fingerprints
The first time fingerprints were ever used as evidence in a murder investigation, the detectives used the same system of classification that we use...
Fingerprints & Sweat Glands
Amazing time lapse footage of the secretion of sweat from the eccrine glands in the hand and how, when in contact with a surface,...
Nova – Forensics On Trial
On 17th October 2012, the PBS Show Nova investigates forensic science and examines how what is often perceived as rock solid forensic evidence can sometimes lead...
Shining Light on the Evidence
The Smithsonian Channel series: Catching Killers have created an informative video to show how the Night Stalker investigation was blown wide open when – for the first time ever...
