WIRED
Published on Jun 21, 2018
In this episode of 'Technique Critique', crime scene analyst and investigator Matthew Steiner examines forensics investigations in crime scenes from movies and television to see how accurate they are. Crime scenes are from The Wire, NCIS, Zodiac, The Flash, The Boondock Saints, Heat, Seven, The Other Guys, How to Get Away with Murder, CSI: Miami, The Dark Knight, Dexter, Insomnia, True Detective, Bone Collector, Criminal Minds, Family Guy, Iron Man 3, Minority Report and more.
I am part of the community outreach committee where I work and we go to the citizens police academy to give a presentation called "CSI: Reality vs TV". We show clips from things like DNA, Latent Prints, etc.. from the TV shows and explain how they are wrong and what labs can actually do. We do this to educate our potential jury pool. It's always amazing to me to how shocked people get when they find out what they see on TV is wrong.
So I've never had the opportunity to process skin for latents. Anyone with that experience ever found an identifiable print on a nail? Has anyone even tried to process a cornea for a latent?
You never processed a cornea for a latent?? Where have you been? You put the body in the superglue chamber then apply a dye stain and POOF there is a latent. Works every time.