Author: Noemi Procopio, Professor of Forensic Sciences, School of Law and Policing, University of Lancashire

The Silence of the Lambs introduced the world to forensic entomology – but how much has the science changed since?

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In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as Columbo and Murder, She Wrote. The US docuseries Unsolved Mysteries brought a few real cold-case investigations to light, but coverage of forensic science on screen was still relatively simple. Then, in May 1991, The Silence of the Lambs […]

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