{"id":50014,"date":"2003-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccrone.mighty-site.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:15:43","slug":"microscopic-evidence-from-the-other-side-of-the-international-dateline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccrone.com\/mm\/microscopic-evidence-from-the-other-side-of-the-international-dateline\/","title":{"rendered":"Microscopic Evidence from the Other Side of the International Dateline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold\u00a0December morning when a young girl was found dead under a tree at the\u00a0park. A coroner&#8217;s inquest determined that she had been strangled. Unfortunately, was little trace evidence at the crime scene and it was expected\u00a0that the investigation would be very difficult. Nevertheless, upon close\u00a0observation, a little bloody dirt was located under eight of her finger\u00a0nails and collected carefully.<\/p>\n<p>An image of one of the clipped nails (Figure 1) illustrates the appearance of the bloody dirt and how the nails were clipped, instead of scraped, in order to preserve the microscopic evidence.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccrone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ryojis_Figure_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"281\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cdirt\u201d was bloody human skin tissue. A sample of the tissue is depicted in Figure 2. Immediately, ABO blood grouping determined that the blood was different from the victim. Several days later, her boyfriend was interviewed at the police station. Although he denied any involvement completely, the scratches on his face indicated otherwise. DNA analysis performed by an outside source (McCrone Associates does not analyze DNA samples) confirmed the blood under the victim\u2019s fingernails was the boyfriend\u2019s.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccrone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ryojis_Figure_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"318\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This case demonstrates once again the value of microscopic evidence exchanged between victim and suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold\u00a0December morning when a young girl was found dead under a tree at the\u00a0park. A coroner&#8217;s inquest determined that she had been strangled. 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