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Using Bluestar Forensic to Detect Shoe Movement Transfer of Cleaned Up Blood

NCJ Number
236258
Journal
Journal of Forensic Identification Volume: 6 Issue: 5 Dated: September/October 2011 Pages: 468-476
Author(s)
Rachel C.B. Leintz
Date Published
October 2011
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This study tested the chemical Bluestar Forensic in the cleanup of crime scenes.
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to determine whether investigative personnel walking on a surface that had been contaminated with blood and then cleaned would transfer the deposited heme onto a nonbloody surface, thus causing a chemiluminescence on the nonbloody surface. No transference of deposited heme was visualized using Bluestar Forensic, regardless of the number of re-entries created by researchers. (Published Abstract)