Word: vitullo
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Emergency room staffs in at least 220 of the state's 300 hospitals now use the Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit, named after Louis Vitullo, a former Chicago police sergeant who helped devise it. The kit comes in a book-size cardboard box and includes slides, evidence bags and labels. Nurses and doctors use the contents to collect blood samples, hairs, fingernail scrapings and bodily smears. While it is still too early to gauge the success of the kit, convictions were obtained in three early test cases in which it was used. Yet a lack of funds for the kits...