Description
What do blood, sweat, tears, and fingerprints have in common? They can all be used to solve crimes. In this episode of Midnight Facts for Insomniacs, Shane and Duncan explore the fascinating world of forensic science, and debunk some of the most ridiculous Hollywood myths. Crime doesn't pay, but it sure makes for a great episode…
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In this episode:
A short history of forensics
Pre-forensics
Trial by combat
Cruentation
Eureka! Archimedes and water displacement
The Theory of Discernable Uniqueness
Likelihood Ratios
Fingerprints
Dermal Ridge Skin
Turing Patterns
Whorls, Loops, and Arches
The Henry Classification System
Dermatoglyphs
Adermatoglyphia
Dactyloscopy
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
Jean Evangelista Purkyne
Henry Faulds
The Loupe
The first success: Francisca Rojas
Paul Jean Coulier and iodine fuming
IAFIS: Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
Blood Spatter
Michael C. Hall and Dexter Morgan
Herbert MacDonell
The [Basement] Laboratory of Forensic Science
The International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
Debunking: The 2009 report by the National Academy of Sciences
Splatter vs Spatter
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Episode Transcript
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