Professor Jim Fraser

Forensic scientist

Professor Jim Fraser has spent his career as a forensic scientist and ‘cold case’ reviewer. He has been involved in many high-profile investigations including; the murders of Rachel Nickell, Damilola Taylor, Lin and Megan Russell, the serial child killer Robert Black, and the death of Gareth Williams, the GCHQ codebreaker. As a member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, he has also reviewed many notable cases including the Lockerbie bombing.

Jim is an experienced media commentator and has appeared in many TV documentary programmes including, Killer at the Crime Scene (Channel 5) and David Wilson’s Crime Files (BBC Scotland).

Books

Murder Under the Microscope – A Personal History of Homicide (Atlantic Books). 

Forensic Science – a very short introduction (Oxford University Press)