Identifying the order in which blood and handwriting were deposited on a document.
As a consequence of a murder investigation, it became necessary to determine whether blood was present on a note prior to the handwritten entries being deposited on the paper. A simple and non-destructive technique using a profile projector was developed to allow such a determination to be made and photographed.
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Victoria Forensic Science Center, Macleod, Australia.
D001801:Blood Stains; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006236:Handwriting; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D013405:Suicide