Centro de Documentação da PJ
Analítico de Periódico
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Linking crime scenes via toolmark comparison of construction nails / Ayal Aronson, Roman Pertsev
Journal of Forensic Identification, Vol. 75, n.º 4 (April-June 2025), p. 153-164
CD 357.
ANÁLISE DE UNHAS, ANÁLISE LABORATORIAL, RECOLHA DA PROVA, ESTUDO DE CASOS
This case report demonstrates the linking of three crime scenes via the forensic examination of construction nails located at each scene. These nails could easily have been ignored at the beginning of the investigation because they did not seem to be a significant finding. However, thanks to the creative thinking "outside the box" of the crime scene investigator, samples of nails from each scene were collected and sent for toolmark comparison in the laboratory. The microscopic comparison showed correspondences in manufacturing marks between subsets of the nails from each scene. These nails turned out to be significant evidence, helping to link the three scenes. In this case, the suspects were linked to one of the scenes via additional forensic evidence. The totality of the evidence led to the submission of an indictment to the court.
