Video – Arson Investigations
One of the best ways to destroy a crime scene is to set it ablaze. Fibers, DNA, fingerprints, and most anything you can think of will be destroyed by the fire and the large amounts of water firefighters use to extinguish the flames. There are drawbacks however; some of the most obvious are that a [...]
What is the Most Difficult Crime to Solve? Hint: It is Not Murder
The most difficult crimes for law enforcement to solve are random crimes. These crimes are perpetrated again strangers and a clear cut motivate to why the victim was chosen isn’t evident.
Although there are deranged individuals that kill strangers, it is far from the norm. Most murders are committed against people that the killer knew. For [...]
Fingerprints – Collection and Avoidance
Fingerprints. Everyone has them and in billions of comparisons, both by humans and computers, no two prints have ever been identical. For this reason, fingerprinting has helped investigators positively identify perpetrators of crimes for over a century.
From the Crime Scene to the Crime Lab
