A recent edition of MIT's Technology Review
tells a tale with direct parallels to analytic journalism.  That
is, investigators bringing well-known and established analytic tools to
new applications.  In this case, using computer scans to conduct a
“visual autopsies.”  See:



“Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Virtual autopsies reveal clues that forensic pathologists might miss. By John Gartner
http://www.technologyreview.com//wtr_15922,1,p1.html?trk=nl