February 2013

Ninhydrin Processing

By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in Minutiae, the Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, #45, November-December 1997. Perhaps the most productive and cost-effective method of developing latent fingerprints on paper is…

Intent Behind the Bullet

by D.H. Garrison, Jr. Originally published in the Association of Firearm Toolmark Examiners Journal, Oct. 1993. Just because a shot was fired, and just because someone was injured or died as a…

How to Enter a Crime Scene

By Dean H. Garrison, Jr. This editorial originally appeared in “The Scene”, the newsletter of the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction. The yellow tape is up. There are cops everywhere, and maybe…