When it comes to solving a murder,DNA, fingerprints and ballistics are just the starting point for forensic experts and detectives. Here’s what investigations study like to those in the labForensics can obtain the disagreement between a killer going to jail or getting away with murder. And that often means hours in the lab for experts like forensic scientist Elaine M Pagliaro of the Henry C Lee Institute of Forensic Science. “Its important to remember that scientific evidence [also] helps to exonerate the innocent, or both before and after trial,” she says.
Here, Pagliaro and criminalists from the Los Angeles Police Department reveal the secrets and science of forensic investigations – and how they all affect cold case results.
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Source: theguardian.com