A Handy Way to Solve Crime - Fascinating forensic facts
What if the only evidence available in a murder investigation is a grainy image of a suspect’s hand? Can the police crack the case?
Well maybe and thanks to a group at the University of Dundee in the UK. 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.
CAHID specializes in human identification, and was also the group that famously reconstructed King Richard III’s face after his body was found in a car park in Leicester in 2012.
I don't think it will be long before my Inspector Andy Horton is using this in his criminal investigations in the heart of the waterfront city of Portsmouth (UK)
Well maybe and thanks to a group at the University of Dundee in the UK. 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.
CAHID specializes in human identification, and was also the group that famously reconstructed King Richard III’s face after his body was found in a car park in Leicester in 2012.
I don't think it will be long before my Inspector Andy Horton is using this in his criminal investigations in the heart of the waterfront city of Portsmouth (UK)
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