The case involved the stabbing of a 92-year-old Melbourne woman by a bank teller who had stolen $6,000 from the woman’s account. The teller stabbed the victim 18 times in the stomach and the back. The victim survived the attack. The police arrested the teller some 8 days later. She partially admitted to stabbing the victim with a boning knife. However, the defense alleged that she was coerced into these admissions and that the police committed improprieties. The crime laboratory examined the victim’s clothing and the boning knife. It examined the damage to the garments macroscopically and microscopically. The laboratory also performed simulation experiments on undamaged areas of two garments. Results revealed that the boning knife could have produced all the damage to the clothing due to its sharpness and its distinctive cuts. Photographs and 5 references