Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Typical Hair/Fiber Analysis

Hair and fibers can be collected from different places: Crime scene and Autopsy

When samples are collected form a crime scene the officers painstakingly comb the scene for pieces of fibers and hairs. The officers have to wear protective clothing to make sure that no new fibers or hairs are added to the scene. These samples are collected and placed in bags, tubes, or other storage containers for further examination.


Crime Scene
When samples are collected during an autopsy the pathologists make sure to collect all the samples that can be found. They scrape under the finger nails for samples of fibers or hair samples. They also collect hair and fiber samples of the deceased. All samples collected are stored for further examination and comparison.


Hair Sample

3 comments:

  1. I like how you put the two ways of where you can collect those hair and fibers and the pictures give it a nice touch.

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  2. Good job! I didn't think about scientists scraping under the fingernails, but that's a really good way to gather evidence. Nice pictures to show what real evidence would look like!

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  3. I really liked this post, it was very informative. Your pictures were interesting as well. Good job :)

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