How accurate is most of the forensic evidence? There has been much evidence recently that most if not all such evidence is suspect, even techniques in unquestioned use for many decades, e.g. fingerprint ids, bite marks, blood spatter, ...
Many techniques seem about as valid as the results of a Rorschach test of the examiner-- that is to say, nil!

Gun control is a hot topic. Do you have any recommendations on how we might reduce criminal gun violence through legislation or other methods in the future? I'm trying to decipher which policies have a good chance of working and which ones are less effective.

What is the website to hear the chat? Is the chat only written?

How often do you develop an initial theory based on your first impression, versus how often it comes purely from analyzing evidence deeply?

What is the minimum education required to be able to become a Forensic Investigator

Do you have any favorite fiction/crime writers that really do a good job getting the forensics right?

In your opinion, what is the most important effort, currently underway, to improve the quality of forensic science?

You agree with Ms. Cornwell on the identity of Jack the Ripper?

In your opinion, if the fingerprints of all Americans were on file for use by law enforcement, would it be a boon to crime solving? What about privacy issues?

Do you feel a need to "decompress" after an investigation - I imagine you get used to adopting a dispassionate attitude when looking at certain evidence, but I would imagine it'd wear on a person.

At about what age do permanently identifiable fingerprints appear? Might fingerprinting infants be useful for future identification?

what organizations set the standards for forensic evidence

Google and others are making rapid advances in image recognition thanks to machine learning algorithms. And we all post photos to Facebook. I'm thinking of the Boston Bombers. If I take a photo with my smart phone the image is automatically uploaded (backed up) to my Google account over wireless within minutes, sometimes seconds. Consequently, an event like the Boston Marathon will have enormous amounts of visual data collection stored on various social media services. But, I might die in the blast and I won't be able to authorize the FBI to use my image data taken during the event. What *legal* efforts are underway by the FBI to utilize distributed smart phone data collection stored on social media servers? Are we looking forward to an 'opt-out' selection on our social media privacy agreements?

Hello, Professor Murray: This country must spend 100s billions of dollars on criminal justice. Are there any priority paid to do R&D on reliable determination of what people state are true or false. Thank you.

What are some of the most interesting type of cases have you worked on? I don't want to sound corny, but my only real exposure to a forensic anthropologist is my favorite character as Dr Temperance Brennan. It sounds like very important and interesting work.

"Data science" has become a hot topic recently. Is there anything in the way of data storage, processing, or computing, that could be of real benefit in your work?

What did your anthropology training give you over and above what you learned in your biology training? At my university they had internships for undergraduates at the coroner's office, and they accepted both anthropology majors and biology majors. Of course many who went were double-majors, but I always wondered if those who hadn't experienced both had different experiences because of what they learned.