The FBI has a digital forensics lab in Louisville that helps crack cases all around Kentucky, and its No. 1 purpose has been helping to close child pornography cases.
Agents also handle homicide and drug investigations in the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory. Any agency, from local sheriff’s offices to Kentucky State Police, can bring the lab a device and then an Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory examiner uses the top technology to possibly break into a phone or computer or search in hidden folders for possible evidence.
The examiners can even reconstruct data on broken phones. Andrew Burden, director of the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, said the examiners also testify in court to help bring criminals to justice.
Burden said they are able to basically provide a storyline of what happened on a particular device. They are able to take artifacts from that computer or cellphone and they are able to tell a story on who was behind the keyboard.
There are only 17 labs like it in the U.S. Louisville’s lab opened in 2007, thanks to a grant from University of Louisville. It is located at UofL’s Shelby campus.
Source: WDRB
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