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victoria alexander
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 2:07 pm: | 
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This email, from the Los Alamos scientist, on their new fingerprint technology regarding JTR's letters to police.
Victoria,
That is an interesting question. If there were ample inorganic elements such as potassium or chlorine present in his fingerprints left on the stamps, and they have not been exposed to water that would wash them off, then it might be possible to detect them.
Chris
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Andrew Spallek
Chief Inspector
Username: Aspallek
Post Number: 768
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 12:17 pm: |
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That's very interesting but it suffers from the same weakness as DNA analysis: there is noting to compare it to. Furthermore, nearly all experts agree that the murderer did not write any of the known letters except perhaps the one that accompanied the Lusk kidney.
Andy S.
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Diana
Chief Inspector
Username: Diana
Post Number: 571
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 4:19 pm: |
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Still and all, if there was a way to get a print off that Lusk stamp it should be done. What we suffer from is that we can't imagine the technology of the future. So we don't preserve the evidence from the past. Suppose that in 1888 there had been someone farsighted enough to save a tissue sample from each suspect and label it as well as tissue samples from the crime scenes. They couldn't do anything with it then, but we can now. We don't know what shape the technology of the future will take. It is shortsighted not to preserve every bit of evidence we can now. The evidence is locked in a little time compartment labeled "1888" and the technology in another labeled "the future". If the two are not allowed to connect we achieve nothing. We who are in a third compartment in between them are the only ones who can bridge the gap. |
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