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Even rookie criminalists are beginning to rely on snazzy science first and street smarts second. Fischer reports that when he is interviewing job applicants for the L.A. sheriff's lab, one question he asks is what they would do if they came upon a murder victim clutching a plastic bag containing a blue powder. Typically, the applicants tick off the string of high-tech tests they would conduct on the substance. What they never ask is where the body was found. "If it was in a Laundromat, he probably had detergent in the bag," says Fischer...
FINGERPRINTS Most prints, set down by oils and sweat on the surface of fingers and hands, are not easy to spot. But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them-powder, chemicals, lasers and lights. Or even plain old superglue. Prints that are invisible on things like duct tape will appear once subjected to fumes from the heated glue...
Which clues are real? It's not enough to "bag and tag" everything at a crime scene. The trick is to figure out what's important. If, for example, a wife is suspected of killing her husband in their bedroom, virtually all trace evidence in the room-fibers, hairs, fingerprints-could be useless. Proving that the wife was in her own room probably won't help the case...
...show Holden leading. But his chances depend on how many Republicans he can pull in, and with lots of ads to come as well as an expected fly-in by President Bush to shore up Gekas' support, nobody, least of all Holden, is assuming the race is in the bag. Message to Clinton: Stay home...
...photos of her and Prince Charles and their boys, a clutch of CDs and old LPs with her signature, handbags from Versace and Chanel and Prada, her monogrammed pajamas (these were in Burrell's bedroom), crockery bearing Charles' crest, more than 3,000 photo negatives stored in a carrier bag, including some of the young princes William and Harry in the bath, a letter Charles sent Diana on their 13th wedding anniversary "with lots of love," a computer disc detailing her personal accounts, a ceremonial sword, "One Lilac Dress with Beige Hanger and Cellophane Dust Cover," 13 cards and letters...