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Old 11-28-2008, 05:29 PM   #1
replicamuse

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Default A warning for would be assasins!
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...n.339f3f2.html

"Almost 12 months after Marianne Wilkinson was gunned down while answering a knock at her door, police say a British scientist may have led them to a much-needed break in solving the case.

Ms. Wilkinson, 68, was shot and killed Dec. 9 in the foyer of her North Richland Hills home in what authorities believe may have been a case of mistaken identity. Three months later, police recovered a large-caliber handgun and shell casings from an intersection about 8 miles from her home. Both had been wiped clean

But John Bond, an honorary research fellow at the University of Leicester Forensic Research Centre, was able to retrieve a print from the casings despite the attempt to wipe them away.
The new forensic technology allows scientists to "visualize fingerprints" even though the print itself has been removed. A study into the way fingerprints can corrode metal surfaces could tell investigators who loaded the gun used to kill Mrs. Wilkinson, Dr. Bond said.

"Any fingerprint deposits that has corroded the shell casings, our technique will find it," Dr. Bond said in a telephone interview this week from England. "What we have is a technique that enables us to visualize after you've wiped the sweat away. We can find a print where conventional techniques have failed."

Dr. Bond said the lab has been using the technique for about two months, looking at about 20 cases. Most of them, like Ms. Wilkinson's, are from the United States, he said..."

pretty cool stuff.
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