Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Forensic science is a growing field that offers scientists opportunities to specialize in different techniques.

In conversation with serial killers. Columbus-based forensic psychologist Jeffrey Smalldon’s fascination with serial killers started early when as a college student he began writing to Charles Manson, ...