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Microtrace has appeared in numerous local, national and international newspaper and magazine articles to explain the significance of trace evidence and micr;oscopic analysis to the general public.

• Courier News "Evidence of his success" (March 15, 2008)

• Hummert Trial (Pennsylvania Soil Case)

• York Daily Record "A parade of expert witnesses is working to build the murder case against Brian Hummert" (October 16, 2006)

• The York Dispatch "Experts Testify about Stragulation, Soil Analysis" (October 16, 2006)

• The York Dispatch "Hummert trial wraps up" (October 17, 2006)

• The York Dispatch "Hummert Convicted in Wife's Murder" (October 18, 2006)

• Chicago Tribune "Elgin Forensic Scientist Aids Ramsey Case" (August 25, 2006)
   

• Rockford Register Star "Rice Murder Case to be Featured on CourtTV" (May 16, 2006)
   

• Investor's Business Daily "Leader's and Success - "His Focus was on the Details" - Interview of Skip Palenik regarding his mentor Walter McCrone (May 8, 2006)
   

• PerkinElmer "Moving IR Spectroscopy Down to the Micron Level Puts Serial Killer Behind Bars" (PDF File 145 kb) (May, 2006)
   

• Geotimes: "Forensic Geology on the Small Screen" (January, 1, 2005)
   

• Mount Prospect Times: "Science Class Crimes" (November 25, 2004)
   

• The Hartford Courant: "Grains of truth in bits of sand: Students learn geology for clues about crimes" (May 16, 2004)
   

• Green River Murders - Ridgway Case

  • From the Green River: Forensic Evidence and the Prosecution of Gary Ridgway, abstract by Jeffrey Baird, JD, from abstracts of the 2006 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meeting.

  • Prosecutor's Summary of Evidence (PDF pages 13, 47, 49, 61, 84 and 107) (PDF - 292 kb)

  • Elgin Courier News: "Murders under a microscope" (November 11, 2003)

  • King County Journal: "Behind the scenes of Ridgway's stunning confession" (November 7, 2003)

  • The Seattle Times: "Three more charges agains Ridgway in Green River case" (March 28, 2003)s

  • The News Tribune, Seattle, WA: "Ridgway faces 3 new charges" (March 28, 2003)
    
    

• Chattanoogan.com - Torry Hardy Case (February, 26th, 2003)
   

• Rockford Register Star: "4 scientists describe DNA, fiber evidence" (February 25, 2003)
   

• Rockford Register Star: "Master of the Overlooked Clue" (February 24, 2003)
   

• Red Streak: "Forensic Frenzy" (February 5, 2002)
  
  

• Reader's Digest: "Crime Seen" (January, 2002)
   

• Elgin Courier News: Guilt or Innocence Beneath the Microscope (11/16/02)
   

• Popular Science: "Crime Seen" (October, 2002)
   

• Chicago Tribune: "A Real Life Sherlock Holmes" (September 6, 1992)
   

• Ottawa Citizen: "The Man Who Solves the World's Biggest Mysteries" (June 6, 2002)
   

• New Scientist: "A Holmes for our time" (October 4, 1997, Sleuth City supplement)
   

• The Toronto Star: "Police, labs must co-operate to solve crime, scientist says" (May 12, 1997)
   

• Chicago Tribune: "Expert Debunks Hair Clue in Murder Trial"
   

• The Courier News: "Shroud of mystery" (March 24, 1995)
   

• Chicago Tribune: "A champion of chemical microscopy"
   

• Daily Herald: "Elgin detective finds answers with power of microscope" (October 29, 1993)
   

• The Daily Journal: Kankakee, Ill: "His answers are microscopic" (October 29, 1993)
   

• Courier News: "Elgin scientist earns world reputation as crime-buster" (October 28, 1993)
   

• Anchorage Daily News: "Circumstantial Evidence: murder trail hangs on two hairs and some tiny red fibers" (August 23, 1992)
   

• The Star News: "Expert microscopist acts as high-tech Sherlock Holmes" (August 5, 1990)
   

• Seattle Times: "Photo Album Believed to be Hitler's" (May 14, 1986)
   

• Daily Democrat: "Apparent Adolf Hitler photograph album surfaces in Illinois town" (May 14, 1986)
   

• Courier News: "Union museum to show album of 'Hitler photos'" (May 14, 1986)
   

• Chicago Tribune: "Expert debunks hair clue in murder trial" (April 18, 1986)
   

• Camanian Compass: "Hairs did not match" (August 2, 1985)
   

• Chicago Sun Times: "He solves cases - by a hair" (April 28, 1985)
   

• The Seattle Times: "Fibers found on murder victim's glove linked to Kendrick's shirt" (January, 29, 1985)
   

• Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Testimony in Caldwell trail ends after 8 weeks, 108 witnesses"
   

• The Evansville Press: "Man with Microscope Solves Mysteries"
   

• U of I Chicagoan: "Close-up on crime: This detective packs a microscope" (December, 1985)
   

• Canadian Clinical Laboratory: "Still crime-lab role for microscope" (November, 1982).
   

• The Elks Magazine: "Science against crime" (November, 1980)