Early last year, an idaho murder trial crossed into new technological turf. The question was how 11-month-old Casey Whiteside had died. Was his skull viciously fractured by his mother's boyfriend? Or did Casey accidentally fall down a flight of stairs to his death? Carl Adrian, the FBI's top expert at using computers to re-create crime scenes, prepared a 10-minute demonstration that transfixed the jurors. Adrian sent a computer-generated likeness of a baby tumbling down an image of the staircase. Then Saami Shaibani, a Temple University physicist, used Adrian's simulation to explain that a fall could not have produced such massive injuries. A Boise jury convicted the boyfriend, Edward Stevens. He's serving life without parole.
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