This third episode of the Case Studies season of Just Science Podcast features Dr. Michael Nirenberg, a clinical and forensic podiatrist and current President of the American Society of Forensic Podiatry, for a discussion on how the analysis of a perpetrator’s gait and footprint evidence found at crime scenes can help advance investigations and solve cases.
In this episode of Just Science Podcast, host Mikalaa Martin welcomes guest, Dr. Michael Nirenberg to discuss how the analysis of a perpetrators gait and footprint evidence found at a crime scene can help resolve cases, support convictions, or lead to the exoneration of falsely accused individuals. Dr. Nirenberg describes what it means to be a forensic podiatrist, how his career developed and led him to this forensic subdiscipline, the role of digital evidence on gait analysis, how forensic podiatrists analyze and compare the gait of a perpetrator to that of a person of interest, as well as several cases where the analysis of gait or footprint evidence was key to supporting investigations.
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