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The forensic scientists unlocking murder mysteries one fibre at a time
ABC News
Rebecca Turner
Saturday [14 October 2017] at 09:21 AEDT
A small government forensics laboratory in Perth has become a global leader with big dreams after developing a new-tech tool for old-fashioned crime-solving.
ChemCentre based at Curtin University has one of only two fibre databases in the world, the other in Belgium.
The database contains about 20,000 samples of fibres from sources including soil, clothing and cars, and is being used to boost police investigations.
Now ChemCentre forensic chemist John Coumbaros is driving a plan to expand the database to a national level, in an attempt to allow investigators around Australia to use it as a key tool in their crime-solving kit.
"We'd like to see it as an international tool, an international database," Dr Coumbaros said.
Fibres are often crucial pieces of evidence in a court case and can link victims to a suspect or crime scene.
"So that two-way transfer from an evidential perspective becomes quite important."
Read more at:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...-lab-unlocks-mysteries-fibre-by-fibre/9046816
ABC News
Rebecca Turner
Saturday [14 October 2017] at 09:21 AEDT
A small government forensics laboratory in Perth has become a global leader with big dreams after developing a new-tech tool for old-fashioned crime-solving.
ChemCentre based at Curtin University has one of only two fibre databases in the world, the other in Belgium.
The database contains about 20,000 samples of fibres from sources including soil, clothing and cars, and is being used to boost police investigations.
Now ChemCentre forensic chemist John Coumbaros is driving a plan to expand the database to a national level, in an attempt to allow investigators around Australia to use it as a key tool in their crime-solving kit.
"We'd like to see it as an international tool, an international database," Dr Coumbaros said.
Fibres are often crucial pieces of evidence in a court case and can link victims to a suspect or crime scene.
"If a victim is transported in a vehicle, there will be transfers of fibres from the victim's clothing onto that motor vehicle as well as transfer from the vehicle onto the victim," he said.
"So that two-way transfer from an evidential perspective becomes quite important."
Read more at:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...-lab-unlocks-mysteries-fibre-by-fibre/9046816