It was a bite mark on the right palm of Jesse Timmendequas that helped to convict him of the 1994 rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka, because a forensic dentist matched it to the teeth of ...

It's time to stop using bite marks in forensics, experts argue. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 12 / 161201120128.htm. Oxford University Press USA.

Fast-forward to 2017, and forensic experts widely agree that identification of an individual by bite mark is risky business — and, according to many bite-mark experts, is invalid if the bite is ...

At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge ...

In January 2007, further DNA testing and the bite-mark evidence later was shown to be associated with another man who had committed suicide, and Brown was released from prison.

“Bite mark evidence is the poster child of unreliable forensic science,” said Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation at the New York-based Innocence Project, ...

Against the backdrop of last week's Congressional hearing into the future of forensic science, researchers from the University at Buffalo's (UB) Laboratory for Forensic Odontology Research in the ...

In Mississippi, forensic odontologist Dr. Michael West has come under fire after he testified in two child rape-murders in the 1990s that bite marks positively identified each killer.

Radley Balko has a good piece up on the fabricated testimony and forensic evidence that ‘expert’ and bite mark specialist, Michael West, has used to help convict countless people in the South ...

Steven Chaney was recently released from prison after nearly 30 years behind bars after bite-mark evidence used to convict him was found faulty. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News) FORT WORTH ...