title: 10 years of 1:1 taping in Belgium - A selection of murder cases involving fibre examination.
abstract: Since 2002, the 1:1 tape lifting technique on murder victims has been introduced in Belgium. Thirty-six murder cases for which a fibre examination was carried out in our laboratory between 2002 and 2012 are reviewed. These cases all involved the collection of microtraces on 39 victims using a 1:1 taping or similar technique, called semi 1:1 taping. The degree of "positive outcomes" for investigative and comparative fibre cases is high. Especially in cases where the modus operandi of suspects had to be verified, the examination of the 1:1 tape lifting led to very useful fibre results. The findings from some of these fibre cases are used to illustrate the advantages, drawbacks and points of interest of the two collection techniques. These are also compared with the zonal taping technique, another microtrace collection technique applied on victims at the crime scene.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: kris.dewael@just.fgov.be.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: De Wael
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lepot
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lunstroot
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gason
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing; D019548:Crime Victims; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans
keywords: 1:1 taping; Fibre examination; Microtrace recovery; Tape lifting; Zonal taping