Fascinating Forensic Facts - a suspect's hand




Fatal Catch an Inspector Andy Horton crime novelWhat if the only evidence available in a murder investigation is a grainy image of a suspect’s hand? Can the police crack the case? Perhaps Inspector Andy Horton can? In FATAL CATCH, fishermen haul a gruesome catch, not a suspect's hand but a victim's!

And maybe and thanks to a group at the University of Dundee in the UK, Inspector Horton will be able to catch more criminals by the hand. The Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) can assess vein patterns, scars, nail beds, skin pigmentation and knuckle creases from images of hands to show, with high reliability, that police got the right person in several very serious court cases in the UK.




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Published on January 23, 2018 00:55
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