Lawrence "Mikey" Partida's injuries It was a tragic end to his 32nd birthday celebration. As Lawrence “Mikey” Partida left...

Stuck in the middle of nowhere on a case, I happened to catch the new documentary No Way Out But One , depicting injustices against abused w...

15 minutes. After a five-week trial, that's how long it took a jury in a rural Northern California county to decide that an openly g...

For the past four years on this date, I have posted a column on Halloween and the sex offender bogeyman. I'm going to skip it this year,...

Debbie Peagler was 15 when she met and fell in love with a charming young man named Oliver Wilson. Unfortunately for her, Wilson was a pimp ...

With the box-office success of The Social Network , the whole world will know that Facebook emerged not from an attempt by a college kid to ...

Doing any doing forensic work in rural communities these days? I just got back from a trip to some distal towns of Northern California, wher...

This masterpiece of potential interest to forensic folks has it all -- great acting, beautiful cinematography, powerful themes, and amazing ...

Wouldn't it be a drag to get arrested for something you did not do based solely on the word of a lying, mentally ill drug addict? That&#...

The Changeling is a powerful film. It tells the long-forgotten story of a working-class woman who brought down the corrupt establishment of ...

Kenneth Parnell , one of California's most infamous child molesters, died Monday night of natural causes, bringing to a close a strange ...