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