Using Bluestar Forensic to Detect Shoe Movement Transfer of Cleaned Up Blood

• NCJ Number: 236258
• Journal: Journal of Forensic Identification Volume: 6 Issue: 5 Dated: September/October 2011 Pages: 468-476
• Author(s): Rachel C.B. Leintz
• Date Published: October 2011
• Length: 9 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This study tested the chemical Bluestar Forensic in the cleanup of crime scenes.

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to determine whether investigative personnel walking on a surface that had been contaminated with blood and then cleaned would transfer the deposited heme onto a nonbloody surface, thus causing a chemiluminescence on the nonbloody surface. No transference of deposited heme was visualized using Bluestar Forensic, regardless of the number of re-entries created by researchers. (Published Abstract)