Forensics Articles

Alternative light sources are valuable tools for identifying critical evidence in crimes. This one is unusual.

Alternate light sources have proven effective at displaying domestic assault markings that ordinary white light photography doesn’t capture.

PrintQuest print extraction

The investigators lifted the palm print, and the readable area of that print was tiny - the size the tip of a pinky.

Heidi Nichols

Alternative light sources are typically used in crime scene investigation and post mortem examinations to identify many forms of evidence.

Forensic light source

Back at the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Department, crime scene investigators processed the tickets with chemicals to make any fingerprints on them visible.

fingerprint identified by an alternative light source

The Indian River Sheriff’s Department in Vero Beach uses alternate forensic light sources for their investigations every day.

CrimeScope CS-16-500W

Alternative light sources used by crime scene investigators help them identify evidence left by suspects at a crime scene.

HandScope HS LED

How a team of nurses revolutionized the investigation of strangulation cases in the area of domestic assault.

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.

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