Forensic Psychology

Patients thought their fertility doctor was helping them conceive using carefully selected anonymous donors. Years later, some discovered something almost impossible to believe: their doctor himself appeared to be the biological father of their...

Does being high in psychopathic traits mean someone will become violent or criminal? The relationship is much more complicated than popular culture suggests. This episode examines psychopathy as a constellation of personality traits, the distinction...

The organized-disorganized typology shaped how generations of investigators and students were trained to read a crime scene — careful planning and control on one side, impulsivity and chaos on the other. This episode traces the model's origins in...

Can a neurodevelopmental disorder influence criminal behavior without eliminating legal responsibility? This episode examines the forensic implications of ADHD, including impaired behavioral inhibition, executive dysfunction, and emotional...

For more than six decades, he was known only as the "Boy in the Box" — one of America's most haunting unidentified murder victims, his battered body found outside Philadelphia in 1957. Despite thousands of leads, generations of detectives working the...