HeyJaredThe Forensic Lens Podcast
The Forensic Lens Podcast is the narrated edition of biological and forensic anthropologist Dr. Richard Jonathan O. Taduran’s weekly column on Agham Road.Each episode delivers his essays in audio form, exploring the intersections of science, justice, and anthropology.
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In the Air Tonight (opens the original)
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What if a crime scene could be sampled not only from the objects inside it, but from the air itself? In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast , I examine a new study on airborne environmental DNA, or eDNA, and its potential use in short-duration crime scenes. Researchers staged fifteen-minute residential burglaries and then tested whether intruders could still be detected genetically after they had left. In some cases, air sampling identified the intruder more successfully than swabbing surf
One Tooth, Five Stories (opens the original)
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How much of a person’s life can survive in a single tooth? In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast , I examine a 2026 study showing how one mandibular premolar can preserve multiple kinds of forensic information. Through radiocarbon analysis, amino-acid racemization, stable isotopes, DNA profiling, and toxicology, a tooth can help estimate birth period and age at death, reveal aspects of childhood diet and geographic background, support genetic identification, and preserve traces of drugs o
Where Have All the Serial Killers Gone? (opens the original)
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Serial killers remain fixtures of popular culture, but the historical numbers tell a different story. In the United States, known serial murder peaked in the late twentieth century and has declined substantially since. So what changed? In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast , I examine the changing ecology of serial murder—from demographic shifts, childhood adversity, lead exposure, mobility, and vulnerable victims to the investigative limitations that once allowed offenders to remain invi
Invented Evidence (opens the original)
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What happens when a forensic examination does not merely reveal evidence, but may help create it? In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast , I examine the case of Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, who spent 27 years on death row after bite-mark evidence was used to link him to the death of a child. Years later, video footage showed forensic dentist Michael West pressing and scraping a dental mold against the victim’s skin during the postmortem examination—raising the possibility that the procedure alte
What Makes Evidence Worthy of Trust (opens the original)
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What makes evidence trustworthy is not the reputation of the institution presenting it, but whether its source, handling, corrections, and interpretation can be independently examined. In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast, I explore evidence integrity through documentary errors, photocopied records, marked exhibits, and official conclusions. A typo does not automatically invalidate evidence, but neither can every irregularity be casually dismissed. The important question is whether the e
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