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Facial Reconstruction: Police Use Found DNA to Create Suspect Profiles

An art project launched four years ago illustrated how scraps of DNA found in public could be turned into eerily lifelike composite sketches and three-dimensional models -- now the police appear ...

Blue Light Special: Colored Streetlamps Precede Decline in Crime

In the early 2000s, the city of Glasgow, Scotland, changed over to blue street lighting in an effort to improve the appearance of the city, but areas with the newly blue lights saw an unexpected ...

Get Booked: ‘A Burglar’s Guide to the City’ by Geoff Manaugh

Take a break and enter the world of urban villains, who see and seek out hidden opportunities in built environments, forever on the lookout for architectural workarounds and infrastructural ...

Nazi Playground: Cult Compound Now a Twisted Tourist Trap

A former haven for Nazi war criminals, child molesters and their sympathizers, Villa Baviera is now a bizarrely whitewashed German-themed tourist attraction tucked into Chile’s Andean ...

Composite Crime Scenes: NYC Past Patched onto Present

Murdered gangsters, car crashes and four-alarm fires are nearly forgotten in the peaceful present day, but this photo series reminds us that the past is not so far away. Photographer Marc A. ...

The Fabric of Guilt: Photorealistic Woven Textile Mug Shots

The cringeworthy moment at which one's accused guilt is captured forever (and often disseminated on the internet) results in a telling portrait of the subject. Mug shots reveal the emotions, ...

Don’t Tag Me Bro: The World’s 9 Most Vandalized Landmarks

These 9 famous international public landmarks, artworks and tourist attractions attract vandalism and graffiti that's usually (but not always) unwanted. ...

Case Closed: 12 Locked Down Abandoned Police Stations

These unlocked, unloaded and unmanned abandoned police stations suggest that when the long arm of the law is crippled, the end of society must be nigh. ...

Utopian ‘Private City’ Envisioned as Crime-Free Urban Oasis

Could a utopian dream of a crime-free private city actually bring fears of fictional dystopia to life? Developers are currently building a white-walled 34-acre complex of apartments, shops, ...

Old Sparky: The Shocking History Of The Electric Chair

Are you sitting comfortably? Good... so was Giuseppe Zangara, 78 years ago today, when authorities at the Florida State Penitentiary flipped the switch on "Old Sparky" and sent the prisoner sic ...

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