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Chapter One
All that Glitters Is Gold!
Robert D. Blackledge
Retired, former Senior Chemist, Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Regional Forensic Laboratory, San Diego, California
Edwin L. Jones, Jr.
Forensic Scientist III, Ventura County Sheriff's Department Forensic
Sciences Laboratory, Ventura, California
We've all heard the saying, "all that glitters is not gold." Although not made
of gold, tiny particles of commercial glitter may be "as good as gold" in terms
of their potential value as associative evidence in criminal cases.
1.1 WHAT IS GLITTER?
Glitter is entirely man-made. It may be tiny pieces of aluminum foil or plastic
with a vapor-deposited aluminum layer, or it ma ... read full excerpt from Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge: New Methods for Trace Evidence Analysis ebook
