Capt. Michael Garigan,
Central Investigation Division, Tucson Police Department.
Interviewed: Thursday, December 28, 2000, by Donald P. Hammond.

Mark Huntzinger, Crime Lab Superintendent, Tucson Police Department.
Interviewed: Wednesday, January 3, 2001, by Donald P. Hammond.

Interview with Capt. Michael Garigan

Lifestyle choices

Capt. Garigan discusses some of the factors that contributed to this year's high murder rate.

Criminal Investigations

An overview of the goal of a police investigator.

Project Excaliber

Remarks about the goals of Project Excaliber: a plan involving the Pima County Attorney's Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the U.S. Attorney's Office to build a computer database to look for links between guns they seize and earlier crimes, and to keep track of the owners of guns used in crimes.

Interview with Superintendent Mark Huntzinger

Crime Lab 101

Remarks about the Crime Labs at the Tucson Police Department.

Advances in technology

How the technologies used by forensic scientists has changed in recent years.

NASA solves crime?

Where enhances in technology have come from as well as comments on how forensic scientists relate to suspects and evidence.