Agree, I don't think that she ( or Harvey) would wash them stapled, sounds counterintuitive. ( I suggested dental autoclave a while ago because you wouldn't need to un-staple the stacks. )
Re weird. I agree but imo they all think that they're criminal masterminds. ( For example, CA telling KM that he used latex gloves and didn't lick the envelope, used a different printer for the hit instructions)
I've no idea if Harvey /Donna could've popped round to the Adelson Institute and autoclaved them but later bagged them before all the steam was evaporated. ( Needs a dentist's input...
@minusfour ..)
Or whether either of them just washed them at home. ( But the experiments show that the bills come out and then dry with distinctive creases)
the utility room at, presumably, their 2014 address
https://www.realtor.com/realestatea...W-14th-Ct_Coral-Springs_FL_33071_M62848-83695
I never thought that the autoclaving of the notes was realistic, because it sterilizes rather than cleans. (To clean instruments, we scrub them, put them through an ultrasonic batch-to clean them-and then put them in an autoclave to sterilize the clean instruments) Autoclaves work with a combination of heat and pressure to kill microorganisms. To be effective, the steam needs to be able to penetrate or flow around the entire instrument.
Now, clearly I am no criminal mastermind, but I don't think that autoclaving dollar bills would remove fingerprints for instance, although it would kill the bugs on the prints. And the bug killing would only be so if the entire surfaces of the bills were exposed during the cycle, and only if the bill was dry at the end of the cycle. Definitely not stacks of bills, stapled together.
If it was done at a dental clinic, it seems more likely that the bills were washed in the ultrasonic bath. Again, each bill's entire surface would need to be exposed during the wash. I think the cycles take 15 minutes each, it would take ages. At the start of each dental surgery day, a "foil test" is conducted on ultrasonic machines to determine that they are functioning correctly. A square of foil-(kitchen foil)- is put through an ultrasonic cycle. At the end of the cycle the foil should have little holes "punched" in it, from the ultrasonic agitation.
Tomorrow I'm going to put a bank note through the ultrasonic, and then autoclave it and see what happens.
If I was trying to wash a stack of money for criminal purposes, I honestly think I would choose manually wiping them rather than autoclaving or putting them through the ultrasonic. I'd wipe each down with a neutral detergent, wearing gloves. It would take ages, but at least you would get them properly clean-no DNA, no fingerprints. Dental staff are good at cleaning, methodically and quickly.
The money washing is a mystery to me, although it seems likely that it was physically washed.
(Then, after going to all this trouble, they pay KM with a series of clearly dodgy cheques, when she has only ever been treated as a patient at their practice!)
). Seriously, she made it sound like the jail sent the janitor to do her intake but I'm confident whoever approached her, medical intake is in their job description. IMO, DA was being, well, DA.
