Microscopic analysis was the best way to analyze hair evidence available at the time, and it dominated the physical evidence presented at Tribble’s trial. An FBI analyst testified that one of ...

Hair samples are one of the most important resources in the forensic analysis of crime scenes, often providing valuable information that can help to lead to the identification of a suspect or victim.

“It comes down to the microscopic hair analysis and a jailhouse rat,” Murray said. “That’s it.” A spokesman for the prosecutors said they wouldn’t comment because the litigation is activ ...

Still, as it is with that review, Texas' inquiry will focus on older cases, because microscopic hair analysis was more common in the 1980s and 1990s, before the rise of DNA testing. Twenty labs ...

Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, commended the FBI and department for the collaboration but said, “The FBI’s three-decade use of microscopic hair analysis to incriminate ...

“Microscopic comparison of hairs can be useful in excluding an individual as a possible source of the hair in question, but proposing a potential match between hairs requires DNA analysis.

In 1982, microscopic hair analysis of strands found on the body of a victim was used and Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson were framed for the murder. Seventeen years later, DNA analysis of the same ...

That analysis ultimately led to this week's announcement ... “These findings confirm that FBI microscopic hair analysts committed widespread, systematic error, grossly exaggerating the ...

The FBI is notifying hundreds of defendants in 46 states that their convictions involved flawed expert testimony. It now admits that nearly every examiner in an elite forensic unit overstated hair ...

Not only could microscopic hair analysis indicate what kind of animal a particular hair fiber came from, it could also help establish whether it came from the back, head or arm. Albeit still in ...

“It comes down to the microscopic hair analysis and a jailhouse rat,” Murray said. “That’s it.” A spokesman for the prosecutors said they wouldn’t comment because the litigation is active. In the past ...