Magnetic Powder
By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in Minutiae, the Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, #43, July-August 1997. Even though magnetic powder has been available since the early 1960’s, many latent print…
April 2013
Trace Evidence: Hair
by Kathy Steck- Flynn Edmond Locard was the founder of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyon in France. Locard believed that that when on person came in contact with…
April 5, 2013October 13, 2013
Interpretation, Collection and Preservation of Glass Fragments
By Kathy Steck-Flynn A man is found dead in an abandoned house. Upon examination the medical examiner finds that the man was killed by a single gunshot to the head. Three local…