New Podcast Episode: Just 19 Hours and 300 Miles

A new Just Science podcast from the National Institute of Justice Forensic Technology Center of Excellence interviews Erin Sims, Lab Manager of the Forensic Identification Unit for the Lincoln, (Neb.) Police Department, about a case involving methamphetamine use and a double homicide. In the early hours of a seemingly normal morning outside Grand Island, Brandon Crago fled a drug rehabilitation center. 19 hours later, Crago had stolen four different cars, evaded police and traveled 300 hundred miles. At the end of his journey, he took the lives of a retired couple on a farm just outside Lincoln. Using wound and bloodstain pattern analysis, Sims and her team pieced together the story and linked Crago to the killings. Click here to listen as she recalls the details of the methamphetamine-fueled car chase that led to a double homicide.