LIsa Black
Cape Coral, FL
Female, 49
I spent the five happiest years of my life in a morgue. As a forensic scientist in the Cleveland coroner’s office I analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now I'm a certified latent print examiner and CSI for a police department in Florida. I also write a series of forensic suspense novels, turning the day job into fiction. My books have been translated into six languages.
As far as I know germs don’t ‘eat’ other germs. But they can’t live long by themselves so on an inanimate surface, they would die sooner rather than later.
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As far as I know, no. The DNA tests of the shirt will just show a mixture of the victims, so that the analyst would only be able to say the blood could have come from these two or three people--in other words there are no alleles that definitely couldn't have come from those three. But because it is a mixture, they can't say it did come from these three exact people. And they couldn't tell, again as far as I know, which blood was deposited first.
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I'm sorry but that's a very broad question. What kind of pattern and impression evidence are you talking about?
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What was it they were testing?
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EMT
Does your crew ever fake an emergency to slice through traffic?
Nurse Practitioner
Could a nurse practitioner do the job of a primary care physician?
Firefighter
What's the worst you've been burned in a fire?
But what sample were they testing? What piece of evidence were they analyzing in the gas chromatograph?
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Stay in school and take lots of science courses. Scholarships would be offered by different schools and/or organizations. What land are you in now?
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No.
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