The standards for preserving evidence on a body say Martin’s hands should have been secured in unused paper bags in order to preserve any trace evidence, including blood, fingerprints and ...

Trace evidence like glass fragments and paint chips ... except a broken blue flower vase that is about three feet from the body. The woman appears to have been hit with the vase at least twice ...

In July 1982, the body of Ridgway’s first known victim ... said Cwiklik, the lab’s trace evidence supervisor at the time. They opted to focus on analyzing hairs and fibers, which “usually ...

In an ABC13 exclusive, Pattie Martin went to Richmond to find out what's behind the delays in forensic testing at crime labs ...

And that's done on a body that has been washed and been embalmed ... So a second autopsy is not going to catch trace evidence such as this. And so this is different information because it confirms ...

Since they often work with body parts and at crime scenes ... Those interested in working with trace evidence (e.g., glass, hairs, gunshot residue) should focus on instrumentation skills and take ...