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'The Silence of the Lambs' introduced the world to forensic entomology—but how much has changed since?

  • May 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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'The Silence of the Lambs' introduced the world to forensic entomology—but how much has changed since?
In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as Columbo and Murder, She Wrote. The US docuseries Unsolved Mysteries brought a few real cold-case investigations to light, but coverage of forensic science on screen was still relatively simple.

Originally published at Phys.org

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