Case Study Hair Case James

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HAIR CASE FILES

1977 cold case
Victim- James Anagnos.
Suspects- Frank Wright.
Hair was found clenched in james hand(figured hair was from suspect). Detectives saw Wright as a suspect because he recently had an argument with James. Hair was sent to testing, when results came back they indicated that it matched the same DNA as Wright.

2. Can’t tell the difference between dog and human hair.
Victim- a cab driver.
Suspects- Santae Tribble.
Retested the hair found for the 3rd time and found out that none of the hair’s belonged to tribble, that it actually belonged to a dog. Turned out that the “2 most trained analyst didn;t know difference between canine and human”.

FIBER CASE FILES

Pink fibers.
Victims- Sofia silva(1), Kati and Kristen

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