Fingernails As Trace Evidence
Shamyiah Underwood
Advance Criminalistics (FSC 620)
National University
Fingernails As Trace Evidence Trace evidence is the physical evidence resulting from the transfer of small quantities of material (e.g., hair, fibres, body fluids, textile samples, paint chips, glass fragments, gunshot residue particles, mud, insects, etc.) which may be collected by the police forensic unit, sexual assault team or medical examiner (Medical Dictionary , 2011). The first thought that comes to many people mind when hearing someone is sexual assaulted is that the semen is the most important thing to find on a victim in order to prove it was a certain assailant. However there are other
Shamyiah Underwood
Advance Criminalistics (FSC 620)
National University
Fingernails As Trace Evidence Trace evidence is the physical evidence resulting from the transfer of small quantities of material (e.g., hair, fibres, body fluids, textile samples, paint chips, glass fragments, gunshot residue particles, mud, insects, etc.) which may be collected by the police forensic unit, sexual assault team or medical examiner (Medical Dictionary , 2011). The first thought that comes to many people mind when hearing someone is sexual assaulted is that the semen is the most important thing to find on a victim in order to prove it was a certain assailant. However there are other