I had a professor in my graduate education who was a mathematician focusing on criminal forensics. She was involved in the AAAS report amongst other efforts. Th

I had a professor in my graduate education who was a mathematician focusing on criminal forensics. She was involved in the AAAS report amongst other efforts. The short version of the story that she told about two years ago is that, in all of criminal forensics, there is only one method which has been subjected to rigorous research: DNA matching, due to it being a topic of interest in many fields (e.g. genetic anthropology).