Crime Information Obtained

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Information obtained from the National Institute of Justice explains general information about the gathering and identifying of evidence, crime scene integrity, transportation and storage of the DNA evidence. Some examples of evidence in at a crime scene that may contain DNA would be, hats containing sweat, hair, or dandruff present in the inside of the hat can be used for retrieval of DNA. Another case would be a baseball bat or some type of weapon consisting of sweat, skin, blood or tissue at the handle or the end of a weapon. All of these can be used to identify the DNA of the individual and link him or her to the crime. An intriguing claim I obtained was that only a few cells are able to be useful for DNA typing. To preserve the evidence