Interviewing suspects, victims and witnesses is part of street police work and detective work alike. Statements can back up information you already know or can provide you with new insight or a new ...

The language patterns in a new book by an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration could be used to decode the author's identity. Using Forensic Linguistics To Decode An Anonymous ...

Forensic Linguistics: How Dark Web Criminals Give Themselves Away With Their Language. Shannon McCoole ran one of the world's largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early ...

Aston University’s Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL) is part of the AUTHOR research consortium which has won an $11.3 million contract to infer authorship of uncredited documents based on the ...

“It was a little bit like the kind of thing you see in movies.” Those are the words recently retired BYU professor William G. Eggington used more than once when he described stories from his nearly ...

This past week’s New Yorker featured an article by Jack Hitt on the accomplishments of forensic linguists like Robert Leonard of Hofstra University, whose expertise about language use has brought ...

Ted Kaczynski was arrested after the longest and most expensive investigation in the FBI's history. Rich Pedroncelli/AFP via Getty Images Can the language someone uses be as unique as their ...

An anonymous bomb threat is phoned into a school. A lengthy manifesto inciting violence is posted online under a pseudonym. A series of texts is sent from a missing person’s phone, but the person ...

Shannon McCoole ran one of the world’s largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The forum provided a secure online space in which those interested in abusing ...