Criminal foul play and medical malpractice often go undiscovered unless post exhumation autopsy is performed and the bones and tissues are examined under the criminological microscope. Declining autopsy rates is the likely culprit. In the years following World War II, about half of all hospital deaths were routinely autopsied. Now the number is under 10 […]

When the physical markings of a fired bullet recovered from a crime scene are too mutilated for visual comparison or the firearm used in the crime is not recovered, the bullet can be compared with other bullets associated with a suspect by its elemental composition through the use of a criminological microscope. When a crime […]

The cause and manner of a death are not always evident, even after visual examination and dissection and examination under a criminological microscope. From 1800 onward, scientific investigators continually devised procedures, instruments, and technologies of visibility, to reveal what the naked eye could not see.
Chemical analysis using criminological microscopes helped detect traces of poison in […]

Art forgery is most common in famous pieces that offer high prices, but is also common in some of the less famous pieces, as not many people know what the piece looks like, making the selling of a forged piece easy. Analysis of a painting, using a criminological microscope, is the most accurate method of […]