Alternative Light Sources and forensic creativity identify suspects in armed robberies
Todd Cole, Denver Police Department | Forensics
Alternative light sources are valuable tools for identifying critical evidence in crimes. This one is unusual.
Investigators develop photographic evidence of domestic assault using alternative light sources
Randy Sparks, Coos Bay, Oregon Police Department | Forensics
Alternate light sources have proven effective at displaying domestic assault markings that ordinary white light photography doesn’t capture.
AFIS key to catching crook in unlikely match
Bradley Whitaker, Moore County Sheriff’s Office, North Carolina | Forensics
The investigators lifted the palm print, and the readable area of that print was tiny - the size the tip of a pinky.
Medical examiner department ID’s evidence with alternative light sources
Heidi Nichols, Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's office | Forensics
Alternative light sources are typically used in crime scene investigation and post mortem examinations to identify many forms of evidence.
Fingerprint database leads to killers
Donna Carmichael, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Department | Forensics
Back at the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Department, crime scene investigators processed the tickets with chemicals to make any fingerprints on them visible.
Alternative light sources and AFIS help identify murder suspects
Kyle King, Indian River Sheriff’s Department | Forensics
The Indian River Sheriff’s Department in Vero Beach uses alternate forensic light sources for their investigations every day.
Forensic light sources nab the suspects
Mark Zabinski, Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory | Forensics
Alternative light sources used by crime scene investigators help them identify evidence left by suspects at a crime scene.
An act of mercy in Baltimore
Debra Holbrook, Mercy Medical Center | Forensics
How a team of nurses revolutionized the investigation of strangulation cases in the area of domestic assault.
SPEX Forensics algorithms used to solve cold cases
Andy Parker, Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification | Forensics
In one case, using an innovation created by SPEX Forensics, a division of HORIBA Instruments, a suspect was subsequently linked by fingerprints to 32 different outstanding felony cases.