More and more people are becoming interested in the field of forensic science. Some are interested in entering the field as a career, others need the information for professions such as law enforcement, and the rest are simply curious about the methodologies due to the increasingly popular television shows. This blog will be used on a regular basis by students as an interactive tool throughout the semester. Let's keep it fun, interesting and respectful. -Mr. Doucette
Monday, October 27, 2008
Ch 5.) Splitting Hairs: Linking Crime to Hair
Investigators often find hairs, both human and animal, at crime scenes. Medical Examiners must determine whether the hair came from the victim, the perpetrator, a visiting friend, other family member, or the family pet.
As you have now learned there are many properties that can distinguish one hair from another.
Question:
1. Briefly summarize in a short paragraph a crime that has been solved with the help of hair analysis.
2. The John Vollman case is a world-famous case. Gaetane Bouchard (16 years old) was murdered in Edmundston, NB, Canada by John Vollman (20 years old) from Madawaska, Maine in 1958. There were a few major pieces of evidence uncovered. One of which was a single hair. Why is this such a famous case?
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ReplyDeleteSome say Napolean died from arsenic poisoning, however later studies of his hair and his family members hair prove that he did not die from arsenic poisoning. All his life he was exposed to arsenic and consumed small amounts, but all being non-leathal. The metal found in his hair was said to be wallpaper paste, hair oinmnent, or gunpowder. His real cause of death is still undetermined however some figure he died of stomach cancer.
1.) One of the most famous murders of all time involves hair analysis. The OJ Simpson murders show evidence that his hair was found of Goldman's shirt. DNA analysis of blood on the gloves was proven to be a mixture of Simpson’s, Nicole’s, and Ronald Goldman’s. The gloves also contains particles of Goldman’s hair and carpet fibers from Simpson’s Bronco. It seems obvious that Simpson had something to do with the murders and of course hair was involved.
ReplyDelete2.)The Vollman case was so important because it was the first time that neuton activation analysis. They used NAA they compared Vollman and Gaetane to the single hair that was found. They found that the hair had come from Vollman.
1.) A women and her 4 month old son were abducted and left in the woods to die. The husband was an early suspect but then they realized it couldn't be him. They looked in the mothers car and they found hair with the victims blood on it. Laboratory tests were done on the hair and the mitochondrial DNA matched the jealous ex-girlfriend. She was tried and convicted of killing the mother and her baby.
ReplyDelete2.) This case was famous because is was the first in which atomic evidence was led to a conviction.
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ReplyDeleteThe Charles Albright case the Texas Eyeball serial killer seemd to be falling apart. They found some evidence but nothing crucial to linking him to any of the crimes. They found Pornographic magizines and other things but nothing that was great evidence. They then found a blanket that they analyzied to having hair on it.Albright agreed to let the police take hair and blood samples from him, and Linch soon called Westphalen to tell him that hair found on one of the bodies was consistent with Albright's hair samples. In addition, hair found on the blankets from his truck appeared to match hair from the prostitutes. This was considered class evidence and although it wasnt individual the court agreed and proved him guilty.
Question # 2
The John Vollman case was a very special and unique case indeed. There was some evidence linking John Vollman to the death of Gaetane Bouchard, but astoundingly there was a piece of hair that was in her hand. The opened up her hand and found that single hair and the hair from vollman were subjected to a neutron activation anaylsis. This was the first time this system was used for forensic science hair anaylsis.
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ReplyDeleteQ1) Alma Tirtsche, was found strangled to death. Her naked body was wrapped in a blanket and dumped in an alley. Colin Russ became a suspect. Police then searched his house and took two other blankets from his house. The blankets were sent for hair analysis. They found that is was most likely female because it was very long. It also had so much much pigmentation, meaning it was from a young person. Also some hair roots showed that they had been pulled out through violence. Colin Ross was found guilty.
ReplyDeleteQ2) This case is famous because it was the first time they ever used neutron activation anaylsis.
1) In the Jeffrey MacDonald case, hair and tissue were found under the victim's fingernails. The hair was short and dark brown which proved that MacDonald had not done it because he had blonde hair. It also proved that nobody living in the house had done it because their hair did not match either.
ReplyDelete2)The John Vollman case was unique because it was the first time they used the neutron activation analysis (NAA) on hair.
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ReplyDeleteThe John Vollman case is a world-famous case because they used neutron activation analysis, which is a complicated technique in which the sample is first placed in a capsule, then insertedin a nucleur reactor and bombarded with neutrons in order to make it radioactive. In the Vollman case it was the first time neutron activation analysis was used.
1.) In 2005 some parents suspected their child minder was giving drugs to their kids to calm them down. The kids were sleepy and sometimes drowsy when they came home from their minder's house. Tests were done on their hair and traces of amitriptyline which is used to treat depression and enuresis and also some nortriptyline which is also used to treat depression. after tests were ran on all 41 children, 29 of them had traces of the two substances in their hair.
ReplyDelete2.) The Vollman case was such an important case because it was the first time that they used neuton activation analysis that successfully led to a conviction. This was used to determine who the one hair found and the scene of the crime belonged to and it worked well.
1. The OJ Simpson murders are the most famous murders, a lot of the evidence that deals with this murder involves OJ Simpson's hair, it was found on Goldman's shirt and many other places.
ReplyDelete2.The John Vollman case was the most important case because it was the first in which the atomic evidence was led to conviction.
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ReplyDeleteThe John Vollman case is world wide famous because this was the first case in which atmoic evidence led to a conviction. To examine the hair prosecuters used neutron activation analysis (NAA), which is a form of nuclear analysis that showed Vollman's hair and the hair from the crime scene appeared to be a match. This piece of evidence ultimately made Vollman switch his plea from Not Guilty to Guilty.
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ReplyDeleteCharles Albright was a serial killer. His crime started at the age of 13. His crimes grew from just stealing to murder. Charles killed three people. They were all had one thing in common, their eyes had been romoved from there head. They only thing that linked Charles to the case was a clump of hair that was left on one of the victims body. With the hair that they found was enough to put charles behind bars for life.
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This case is world famous for one reason. When they found the hair in the victims they used neurtron activation analysis(NAA) to prove that his hair was a match. After they looked closely at the hair they found it matched some of the same properties. With the NAA evidence they were able to convict Vollman and this was the first case which atomic evidence lead to a conviction
After losing custody of their neice a group of three people plotted and killed Karyn Hearn Slover to gain custody back of their neice. animal hair ruled out suspects in this case. both dog and cat hair had been found at the crime scene. The three were conviced of the murder of Karyn Hearn Slover and now server life in jail.
ReplyDeleteThis was a world case case because it was the first time that neutron activation analysis (NAA) was used to solve a case.
1) Ted Bundy is a serial killer that is known around the world. He was responsible for the deaths of many different women on many different occasions. On a specific occasion where they were looking for an 18 year old girl named Carol DaRonch they found two peices of hair belonging to the victim. although they wanted to throw out this evidence because they said it was not like a fingerprint it was a very important peice of evidence to help put Ted Bundy away for this murder along with many others.
ReplyDelete2) This case is famous because it was the first time they used NAA (neuton activation) were they matched the hair found from John Vollman and determined that that single hair did come from him.
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ReplyDeleteIn 1921, in Melbourne, Australia an officer found a young girl that has been strangled and bludgeoned to death. Her naked body bruised but oddly free from blood, had been wrapped up in a blanket and dumped. The savage nature of the rape confirmed that this was no ordinary killer. The victim was identified as Alma Tirtsche, who had been reported missing the previous day. The absence of blood meant that the girl had been killed elsewhere than transported to Gun Alley. The victims body had been carefully washed and dried. Colin Ross was able to reveal details about the murder that only a killer could have known. Two blankets were found at Ross's home one they found reddish-gold hair, the same color as the victim's. Dr. Charles Taylor a government industrial chemist did the analysis on the hair. His first task was to establish that the hairs were human; this was easily acheived. A high degree of pigmentation indicated an age range of 13-30 years. Some of the hairs were pulled out by the roots, a common feature of assaults, others were broken off. At Ross's trial, he was found quilty and hanged on April 24, 1922.
1.) the oj simpson case is one of the most famous cases of all, i think. Hair analysis was helpful in this case because oj's hair was found on goldmans's shirt. The gloves contain more hair of goldmans and carpet fibers from ojs vehicle. this case was a unfair case. its obvious that oj killed her, with all the supporting evidence, it just shows how our judicial system sucks.
ReplyDelete2.)The Case involving John Vollman and the murder of Gaetane Bouchard is a world-famous case because it was the first case to ever be solved using neuton activation analysis. they compared John Vollman and Gaetane Bouchard to the single strand of hair found,and it was John Vollmans.
napoleon was supposedly killed by arsenic poisoning, but studies on his hair found that he was not killed by arsenic, even though he was exposed to small amounts it wasnt enough to cause him to die. from the testing that was done the results were that he had died from that metals in the wallpaper, hair products, and gunpowder.
ReplyDelete#2the hair that was found during the vollman case was linked back to vollman, all from NAA(Neuton Activation Analysis). this was the first case to use this to help solve this case.
1.) One case that was solved using hair analysis was the OJ Simpson case. There were many peieces of physical evidence found in the OJ Simpson case and one was that hair consistent with Simpson's was found on Goldman's shirt.
ReplyDelete2.) The reason why the John Vollman case was so famous is because if was the first time NAA was used, which is neutron activation analysis.
1) In 1990, Kyle Unger and another man were accused and sentenced for the sexual assault and killing of Brigitte Grenier. In 2005, new DNA testing suggested a strand of HAIR found at the scene of the crime and originally used to convict Unger did not come from him. This new evidence gave Unger an opportunity for another trial.
ReplyDelete2) The John Vollman case is a famous case because it was the first case in which neutron activation analysis was used. A hair was found around Gaetanes's hand and after the analysis it revealed that the hair was very different from Gaetane's and very similar to John's.
Question #1
ReplyDeleteJeff McDonald was found not guilty because of hair sample they had found under the victim's fingernails. The hair found was dark brown and short, Jeff's hair was blond.
Question #2
The case of John Vollman and Geatane Bouchard was super famous because it was the first time they used NAA, neutron activation, where they proved the only hair found was John's.
The French leader Napoleon was suspected of being posioned by arsenic. When they did tests on his hair they did find traces of this posion which shows that he was probably being slowly posioned. The cause of his death is thought to be stomach cancer.
ReplyDeleteThis case is so famous becasue is was the first time neutron activation analysis was used to solve a crime.
1) John Bell, 68, was killed during a burglary in his home on in January of 1979. Bell was stabbed as he scuffled with an intruder, but was able to pull out some of his killer's hair. They have now linked that killing to Douglas Lee Simmons, who was 18 at the time. They used DNA from Simmons' hair to solve the crime.
ReplyDelete2) The John Vollum case is a world-famous case because a hair that was discovered at the scene was tested with a new method of neutron activation analysis that helped them link the hair to Vollman and solve the case.
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ReplyDelete1.) The OJ Simpson case was a court case that used hair evidence. Althoug the evidence was mostly incriminating, the defense somehow found a way to turn it around and use a lot of it to exonerate him.
ReplyDelete2.) The John Vollamn Case is an important case because it was the first criminal investigation to use atomic evidence to incriminate a suspect.
1. IN the case of Colin Ross where hairs were found in Colin Ross's home on a blanket, and linked Ross to the murder of Alma Tirtsche. Ross was found guilty and later hanged.
ReplyDelete2. A hair was found and, neutron activation analysis was on the hair. This was the first time this system was used for forensic science hair analysis.
1. Napolean was said to have died of arsenic poisioning. With the technology now his hair was examined, found with no arsenic poisioning. His death is undetermined still today.
ReplyDelete2. I believe it is famous because not many cases have happened around here.
In the show CSI I was watching, there was a piece of hair found in a champagne juice bowl. This hair was one of the victims friends and it proved that the victims friend had not killed her, but the person who got in a fight and pulled the friends hair was the killer.
ReplyDeleteThis was a famous case because it was one of the first times that hair actually solved a case.
One of the most famous cases of poisoning may have been solved by modern technology and hair. Napoleon Bonaparte was the emperor of France. He waged war on most of Europe during his reign. In the end he was captured and exile to a small island in 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte was and is famous for the paintings done of him showing him with his hand inserted into his shirt covering his stomach. This habit of putting his hand over his stomach led to the belief that he may have had stomach cancer. His father had died of stomach cancer many years before.
ReplyDeleteBefore he died he wrote that he believed he was being poisoned by his English captors. When he died his valet kept a lock of his hair. The lock of hair survived and with the advent of new technology was tested using neutron activation analysis. The results showed that the emperor had been subjected to heavy dosed of arsenic. The doses had been administered over a period of four months. It is impossible to say who poisoned Napoleon Bonaparte but it is now known he was poisoned.
2.)The Vollman case was so important because it was the first time that neuton activation analysis was used. They used NAA to compare Vollman and Gaetane to the strand of hair at the scene. They found that the hair had come from Vollman.One of the most famous cases of poisoning may have been solved by modern technology and hair. Napoleon Bonaparte was the emperor of France. He waged war on most of Europe during his reign. In the end he was captured and exile to a small island in 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte was and is famous for the paintings done of him showing him with his hand inserted into his shirt covering his stomach. This habit of putting his hand over his stomach led to the belief that he may have had stomach cancer. His father had died of stomach cancer many years before.
Before he died he wrote that he believed he was being poisoned by his English captors. When he died his valet kept a lock of his hair. The lock of hair survived and with the advent of new technology was tested using neutron activation analysis. The results showed that the emperor had been subjected to heavy dosed of arsenic. The doses had been administered over a period of four months. It is impossible to say who poisoned Napoleon Bonaparte but it is now known he was poisoned.
2.)The Vollman case was so important because it was the first time that neuton activation analysis was used. They used NAA to compare Vollman and Gaetane to the strand of hair at the scene. They found that the hair had come from Vollman.
1). In 1899, a case known as "L'affaire Gouffe", Francois Goron was able to establish that a murder victim's hair had been dyed. Establishing this simple fact led to the identification of Gouffe's body and subsequently to the arrest of his killers. Francios Goron had successfully used forensic hair examination to solve a crime for the first time in history.
ReplyDelete2) The Vollman case was a very important case because it was the first time neutron activation analysis was used that successfully led to a conviction. It was used on a single strand of hair found in the victim's hand.
A man was accused for killing a lady's husband. The hair and fingerprints that were tested did not match his but yet he served 25 years in prison, and was executed 4 times. There was no sort of evidence to prove that he was linked to the crime. When a person was questioned they said that this man was 75 miles away during the time of the kill. The wife ended up going to prison for 10 years and when she came out she changed her testimony and said that he beat her as well as killed her husband.
ReplyDeleteThe Vollmans case is very important because it was the first time that neuton activation analysis was used. And because it shows how hair can be a huge part in solving a case.
1.Robert Curley was poisoned with large amounts of thallium. Analysis of his hair was able to create a time line that showed the poisoning had taken place over the previous nine months, with the amount of poison in his system decreasing when he was away from home and spiking days before his death. This evidence was used to get his wife to confess to his murder.
ReplyDelete2. The Vollman case was the first cases where Neurton Activation Analysis was used to solve a crime.
1. Napolean died of arsenic poisoning. They know this because they analyzed his hair.
ReplyDelete2. It's so famous because that single strand of hair that was found in Gaetane's hand, matched John John Vollman's. That was the strongest piece of evidence.
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ReplyDelete1) The Collin Ross case where a female's hair was found on a blanket in a suspects house, the same kind of blankey a man used to wrap the victims body in. He was found guilty and hanged 4 months later.
ReplyDelete2) The significance was the admissibility of hair neutron activation analysis. What ever that is.
1)A serial killer that most people recognize the name when they hear it is Ted Bundy. He committed multiple crimes killing many women. But after Carol Daronch and 18 year old went missing, the police found two pieces of hair belonging to the victim. The police didnt believe that this evidence was substantial, but it was the only evidence they had to put this serial killer in jail, for all the murders he committed.
ReplyDelete2) The Vollman case was so famous because it was the first time neutron activation analysis was used, which led to Vollman's conviction.
1) There was a couple that recently got divorced and had to share custody of the 6 month old daughter. The father was giving the mother trouble, and she was afraid that he would try to do something to the baby when he has her. Until one day they both got abducted and were left in the middle of nowhere to die, until they were found and had a piece of hair on them with blood from the suspect. They took it to the lab and got the result that the girlfriend wanted the mother and daughter dead so they could start a family of there own.
ReplyDelete2)The Vollman case was so important because it was the first time that neuton activation analysis. They used it to compare the hair of Vollman and Gaetane and found out that the hair came fro Vollmans head.
1.) In New York city, a police officer was discharged as a failure to pass a hair analysis drug test. The officer claimed contamination and inadequacies. The case was brought to the New York Supreme Court and was ruled in favor of the State of New York.
ReplyDelete2.) Hair was used in the Vollman case to link Vollman to the murder of Gaetane Bouchard. Hair was found in her hand, which was thought to have been the hair of her murderer. The hair was tested by neutron activation analysis and was compared to Gaetane and John Vollman's hair. The proportion of sulfer to phosphorus radiation was that exactly of Vollman's hair. He then changed his plea to guilty and was found guilty of murder.
1. The Marriage of Ibrahim A. Moussa and Nastassja Kinski- In a custody battle, the father was given a urine test to look for drug use. All of his tests showed that there wasn't any drug use. The wife ordered that his hair be checked. Two samples were taken a year apart, and both showed drug use.
ReplyDelete2. This case was important to the study of forensic science because it was the fist time that neuton activation analysis was used. They were able to determine that the hair had come from Vollman, and frame him for the crime.
Q1) In New York a guy named Patrick Forte brought to court because of cocaine use. The hair samples results showed a positive for cocaine vapors. The guy was caught for cocaine because of the hair samples.
ReplyDeleteQ2)The case was famous because the NAA used nuclear reactors. They took both Vollman and Gaetane hair and compared it to the single hair.
1.)I believe that the Oj Simpson case is one of the most famous cases of all. Hair analysis was helpful in this case because Oj Simpson's hair was found on Ronald Goldman's shirt. The gloves contain more hair of Ronald Goldman's and carpet fibers from Oj Simpsons vehicle.
ReplyDelete2.)The Case involving John Vollman and the murder of Gaetane Bouchard is a world-famous case. They compared John Vollman and Gaetane Bouchard to the single strand of hair found. It was John Vollman's.
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ReplyDelete1.)Charles Albright was a serial killer who carved the eyes out of his victims. The police were having a hard time getting good evidence against him until they found a blanket with hair on it at one of the crime scenes. Albright allowed them to take some of his hair, and his hair matched those on the blanket giving them the evidence they needed to convict him.
ReplyDelete2.) When the investigators looked at Gaetane’s hand they found a hair in it and tested it using a neutron activation analysis. It turned out the hair in her hand was John Vollman’s. It was the first time the system was used to help solve a crime so it was a milestone in forensic history.
1.) One case that involved hair analysis was the Scott Peterson case. Scott is accused of killing his wife, Laci Peterson and their unborn child. When the police became suspicious of Peterson they got a search warrant to search his house, his truck, the tool box in the back of his truck, his warehouse and his boat. The only piece of physical evidence they found was a single strand of hair found in a pair of pliers found in his boat that was later identified as Laci's. This helped the police to further their investigation on Scott Peterson.
ReplyDelete2.) The John Vollman case is world-famous because it was the first time they used neutron activation analysis (NAA) on hair.
1.)The death of Napoleon has always thought to have been suspicious, it was said that he died of stomach cancer. When tests were done on his hair it showed that he had been slowly poisoned and that stomach caner was not the cause of his death.
ReplyDelete2.) This case was world famous because there was little evidence available and a piece of hair was found wrapped around her finger. They were able to Neutron Activation Analysis for the first time to link Vollman to the murder of Bouchard.
1.)Patrick Forte was trying to revive benefit but he was disqualified because after submitting to a hair test he was found positive for cocaine use. He tried Arguing the case but when looking at the hair closer the results for the hair did not math up with what Forte was describing.
ReplyDelete2.) Back in the 1950's a new technology that was just starting to come out was neutron activation analysis. This case was one of the first cases to utilize this technology.
1.) In 1999, scientists analyzed a single beard hair that was found at the crime scene of the murder of 21 year-old Jessica Dooley of Montana. The hair was found in a plastic bag that the perpetrator used to cover the victims head. The hair was compared to Jared Rosling who was the most likely contributor. The prosecutors hope to pin it on him in court.
ReplyDelete1. Alma Tirtsche,a young girl, was found dead wrapped in a blanket and dumped in an alley in Melbourne, Australia. No blood was found at the scene, which made investigators think that she was killed one place and transported to the alley at a later time. As the investigation progressed, the found a suspect, Colin Ross. They had found two more blankets in his house. On one they found strands of reddish gold hair, the same color as Alma's. The hair evidence indicating that Alma had been in contact with the blanket found at Ross's home was enough to convict him. He was found guilty of murder and hanged four months later.
ReplyDelete2.A second autopsy had revealed the most compelling clue yet. Entwined in the dead girl's fingers was a single hair, two and a half inches long, most probably pulled from the killer's head as she fought for her life. In order to establish whether this hair came from their chief suspect, investigators turned to a controversial by-product of the atomic age.
2.) It was important because it was the first time they used hair anaylsis in an investigation. The hair was found entwined in the 16 year-old girls hand and was then used in Neuron activation analysis.
ReplyDelete1.) in 1986 a resort hotel in the Arizona mountains went bankrupt after a large sum of cash was taken. Local authorities subjected the hotel employes to dna testing and found that employee Gabrielle Sanchez had traces of cocaine in her hair follicle. She pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from the hotel to pay for her cocaine addiction.
ReplyDelete2.) The Vollman case was extremely important in the history of forensic science. By using groundbreaking new analysis of the time the forensic scientists use atomic neutron testing on a piece of hair found at the crime scene to convict John Vollman of murder. It was a turning point in forensic science history.
1)A dog helped solve a murder that ended up with four men in jail for brutally murdering former boxer Brian Keating. Scientists were able to link the dog hairs found on Keating's body to others that were in the van of a key suspect, Daniel McGowan. Police tracked the dog and found that she belonged to a family who lost her. They don't know how the suspect came across the dog. Keating was beaten to death with a sledgehammer and a baseball bat by a gang that went into his home. The suspect was guilty of kidnap and murder and was jailed for life. Three other males were also jailed for life for the same offense.
ReplyDelete2)Te John Vollman case was famous because it was the first time they used neutron activation analysis.
1.A man who was convicted of sexual assault and murder of a sixteen year old, Brigitte Grenier, had a chance at another trial because the piece of evidence that got him convicted would possibly prove him innocent. In 1990, at a concert a girl was sexually assaulted and killed. Kyle Unger was convicted, the evidence that proved this was a piece of hair that they believed to be Brigitte's and one witness. Kyle first got convicted after undercover policemen posed as gang members and tried to recruit him, the only way to get into the gang was to confess an awful crime kyle confessed but got many aspects of the crime wrong. the hair that was found is what changed their minds as they studied it, it turned out to be a hair from someone else so the hair gave hima second chance at another trial.
ReplyDelete2.the reason why the case is so famous is because they usedneuton activation analysis (NAA) on one of the hairs to prove that it was his.
1) A good case to use is the OJ simpson case. There was hair that was found in this case Which was found on goldmans shirt.2).The case was the first cases where Neurton Activation Analysis was used for a crime.
ReplyDelete1)One day while at his job, which was in a lab, Robert Curley died. They found that he had traces of thallium in a thermos he had brought to work, but his wife and daughter also tested positve. By looking at his hair they found that he had been poisoned over a long period of time, even before his job at the lab. Forensic scientist found the killer to be his wife how admitted to using old rat poison, containing thallium to poison him, she also poisoned herself and her daughter so investigators would not think that she was a suspect.
ReplyDelete2)The John Vollmon case is unique because it was the first time that neutron activation analysis was used.
The OJ Simpson case there was hair found at the scene and on OJ's gloves. This should have been enough evidence to lock up OJ however it was not found to be probative.
ReplyDeleteThe Vollman case was the first time that they were able to use atomic evidence to convict a criminal.
1) There was hair found in OJ Simpson's Bronco from the victims.
ReplyDelete2) It was important because it the first time that they used nuclear evidence to solve it.
1.In France there was a man named Francois Goron, head of the French Surete, and he tried to use hair to identify a killer. He used the hair clutched in a dead woman's hand, but apparently the hairs could not be identified as human since there was no information on the subject. Later on in 1899, several years later after his first failure, Goron established that the victim's hair was dyed and they were able to use the hair later to find and arrest the killers.
ReplyDelete2. The John Vollman case is such a world famous case because it was one of the first cases where they used neuton activation analysis. By using NAA they were able to compare Vollman's hair to that single hair that was found.
1. Napolean's hair was analyzed by investigators. Some say that he died from arsenic poisoning because he found arsenic in his hair. This was not because of suicide or murder though, he was always exposed to arsenic just not in big amounts of it so it was not deathly. Other investigators suggest that it was vapors fromt he dyes in the wallpaper that killed him.
ReplyDelete2. The John Vollman case is such a famous case because it was the first case in which evidence of hair was led to conviction of the crime.
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ReplyDeleteColin Campbell Ross was convicted of the murder of Alma Tirtschke with evidence of a few strands of hair found on Alma's body.
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It was a world famous case because it was the first case to be solved by the then new technique of neutron activation analysis.
1. After Napoleons death they analyzed his hair which found traces of arsenic. With arsenic found on his hair it made investigators look into poison.
ReplyDelete2. The John Vollman case is so famous because it was the first case that a neutron activation analysis proved someone guilty.
1.) In 1985, a young woman was murdered. A single beard hair was found on the body, and tests were conducted to determine who it belonged two. Of the three suspects, the test results excluded two of them and connected the third directly to the murder.
ReplyDelete2.) The John Vollman case is famous because it was the first to utilize neutron activation analysis.
Everyone knows about the OJ Simpson case and where he was accused of killing his ex-wife and Ron Goldman. They were able to obtain a hat and in the hat they found hair that belonged to OJ Simpson. They also found hair on Goldman's shirt. It is obvious that Simpson had a presence at the crime scene.
ReplyDeleteThis case is famous because it was the first that used neutron activation analysis. They were able to conclude that the hair had to come from Vollman and not from Gaetane.
1. In 2008, there was a double homicide in a dorm room. The two young men killed were Alex Ouellette and Jim Harris. Alex was shot in the head and Jim was strangled to death. When officers got on the crime scene, there was much evidence available for them to solve the crime. One piece of evidence was the murderer's hair. Jim had a big chunk of the hair in his hand. This proved a sign of struggle. The hair was used to determine that the suspect's race was Caucasian. The follicular tag was present n the hair sample which contained nuclear DNA. At this point, the main suspect was Matt Fortunato. Investigators compared the sample found at the crime scene to Matt's hair. He was proven guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
ReplyDelete2. This is such a famous case because it was the first case to use neutron activation analysis. This is when a hair has many neutrons. The neutrons collide with the components of trace elements and make them emit gamma radiation of a certain energy level. This way, investigators can measure every part of a hair sample, no matter how small. In a single hair, fourteen different elements can be identified and this is why this case is so famous. The suspect was convicted with one piece of hair. Hair can reveal a whole bunch of things about a person; the presence of poison or dye, the type of hair, and maybe sometimes even racial differences. In the Vollman case, the piece of hair was matched to him because of the ratio of sulfur radiation to phosphorus, using this neutron activation analysis. This use of scientific technique is still used today and although only used with class evidence, it can greatly narrow down suspects.
1.)A girl was found in a hallow grave in the woods in 1994 they couldn't identify her until they ran an hair analysis. She had brown hair and was killed by a hit to the head. the hair also should that she was in Santa Barbra before she was killed.
ReplyDelete2.)It was so important because it was the first time that hair analysis was used. And his hair was the hair they found at the crime seen. And also atomic evidence was led to a conviction.
1.) One of the first cases to ever use hair analysis to solve the crime was the "L'affaire Gouffe." The investigator of the case was able to conclude that the victim's hair had been dyed, which led them to the identification of Gouffe's body. Once they figured out who he was, they were able to figure out who his killers were.
ReplyDelete2.) The John Vollman case became world famous, because it was the first time that neutron activation analysis was ever used to solve a crime. A single strand of hair was found wrapped in Gaetane's hand and when the used NAA, they discovered that the hair was not hers, but John Vollmans.
1. A male named, Scott V. was accused of doing some illegal drugs. It was brought to the court and the court relied on the plaintiff's hair test result, which was positive for marijuana, as well as plaintiff's prior admission of use.
ReplyDelete2. This case is one of the most famous cases because it was the first time they ever used neutron activation. They matched the hair that they found and determined that that single hair came from John Vollman.
1. Francois Goron used hair found clutched in a murder victims hands to help find and put away her murders in what was one of the first modern instances of hair being used to solve a crime.
ReplyDelete2. The significance of the John Vollman case was that it was the first time a court allowed Neutron Activation Analysis.
In the Heather Barnett Murder case hair was used to lead investigators to other similar murder cases resulting in locating the murderer. When Heather Barnett, was brutally killed and shockingly mutilated at her home in November 2002, the murderer left a lock of someone else’s hair in her right hand. Detectives from Dorset Police reported that several women had come forward to say that an unknown person had cut their hair while they were traveling on buses in Heather’s home town of Bournemouth.When the hair was tested these things were discovered about the owner of the hair. The person lived in the United Kingdom,
ReplyDeletethe person had taken a trip to the Valencia/Almeria area of Spain or the Perpignan area of France for up to six days about 11 weeks before the hair was taken, the person had visited urban Tampa in Florida, USA for just over a week about a fortnight before their hair was taken, the person changed diets twice in the three months before having their hair cut.Apparently leaving another person's hair in his latest victims hand was his signature and this lead detectives to a 1993 case in Italy. A thirteen year old girl had been kidnapped and never found and at the beginning of 2010 her mummified remains were found in a church in Italy. On May 20th, 2010, detectives interrogated a man Danilo Restivo, and charged him with the murder of Heather.
The Gaetane Bouchard case is famous because it was the first time that NAA hair analysis was used to convict a criminal. NAA stands for Neuron Activation Analysis. NAA tests for the presence and concentration of various elements in a hair sample. In this case, NAA showed that the hair found in Bouchard’s hand contained a ratio of sulfur to phosphorus that was much closer to Vollman’s hair than her own. At the trial Vollman, her boyfriend, confessed to the murder of Bouchard.
Charles Albright was a serial killer from texas. He was convicted of killing three women. During his trial most evidence was circumstantial, all expect for a hair found at one of the crime scenes. This hair which had Albright's DNA on it was what got him convicted.
ReplyDeleteThe John Vollmen case was so famous because it was the first case ever to use neutron activation analysis. This process which bombards hair with neurons allows different elements of hair to be identified. This new technique helped to solve this case.
1.) one of the most famous cases that involved hair was the OJ Simpson case. In this case Hairs found in a dark knit cap were similar to Simpson's hairs; fibers on a cap were similar to those in the carpeting of Simpson's Ford Bronco; dark blue cotton fibers were found on Goldman. You would think that this is a dead giveaway that OJ killed his ex wife. The defense said “Hairs mean nothing more than assailant may have been black, as is roughly 10 percent of Los Angeles' population; also pointed to hairs that appeared to contain no dandruff, while Simpson's hair sample had some dandruff; no dark blue sweat suit was ever found; evidence could have been cast about the scene when a detective unfurled a blanket from Ms. Simpson's home to cover her body.” As you can see that even tho there is hair evidence they can't convict somebody because of it because it is not individualized.
ReplyDelete2.) the John Vollman case is such a famous case because it was the first time that neutron activation analysis was used to test the concentration and presence of certain elements
1) Napoleon's death is one crime that was solved using hair evidence. When he first died people assumed it was arsenic poisoning since he'd always been around arsenic. With today's technology we could certainly solve Napoleon's death and what really happened to him. But his cause of death still remains undetermined.
ReplyDelete2)The Vollman cause was famous because it was the first time neutron activation analysis was used.
A 1977 case was solved years later due to new DNA testing methods. A Rubidoux bartender was murdered and there were no witnesses. The only evidence was some hair found clumped in the victims hand and a testimony saying the suspect was the last person seen with the victim, and they were arguing at the time. The victim was stabbed 20 times with a steak knife and had been hit four times in the head with a blunt object. The hair was found clenched in the victim's hand, and was believed to have come from the suspect, but the laboratory at the time was not able to match the hair samples to Wright. The hair was sent earlier this year to Orchid Cellmark, a private lab in Texas, for testing, he said. The DNA test confirmed the hair found in the victim's hand belonged to Wright, according to Brown.
ReplyDeleteThe John Vollman case was an important one because it helped hair become a more valuable form of evidence. One piece of evidence was hair found in the victims hand. At the time neutron activation analysis just came out and was used to test the hair. The results showed that the hair was most likely John Vollman's and helped push the jury over the edge to convict Vollman. After this hair testing in this method helped solve many crimes.
The O.J Simpson case is a very well known case known by many people. Surprisingly O.J Simpson's hair was found on Goldman's shirt but yet O.J was found not guilty. The John Vollman case is a famous case because they used neutron activation analysis. Another astonishing fact about this case is it took one hair found in Bouchard's hand to link Vollman to the murder.
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ReplyDeletea woman was found dead in the eighty's back then it was carried out. so now they still have the hair so they tested it and it matched to a man forbes and he is arrested now so i think he did kill her because the witness say they saw them togther leaving the bar so he did kill her.
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it was famous because it was the first they used neuton activation they used the results and compare it to johns vollman hair it's a match and their was some phosphate in the hair which he was more into that stuff.
The Charles Albright case. The Texas serial killer seemed to be very open ended. Some evidence was found including a few x rated magazines but nothing that could pin him to the murders. They then found a blanket that was later analyzed. Hair was found on it that matched those of Albright. Also hair found on the blankets from his truck appeared to match hair from the prostitutes. This evidence was enough for Albright to be found guilty of multiple murders.
ReplyDelete2.)This was a famous case because it was the first time Hair analysis was used.
1) The OJ Simpson case is a good example of a crime that hair was a key factor. They found hair on Goldman's shirt.
ReplyDelete2) The Vollman case is famous because it was the 1st case that they used neutron activation analysis.
1.Nepolean supposedly died from arsenic poisoning or so he thought but a study on his hair after his death was showed that he was getting small doses over time of but nothing that could kill him.
ReplyDelete2.The John Vollman Case is so famous because it was the first case to utilize neutron activation analysis. Gaetane Bouchard was clasping strands of hair when they found her body. The strands were analyzed and found them to be Vollman's.
1.A crime that has been solved due to hair analysis would be Napolean's. They found a trace of arsenic from his hair, but after finding out that he was exposed to arsenic his whole life.
ReplyDelete2. The John Vollman case is famous because it was the first time a court allowed Neutron Activation Analysis.
OJ Simpson's trial involves hair analysis. The OJ murders to point that he had a part in the murders. The hair analysis shows that there was hair from OJ found on Goldman's clothing. I think that OJ did have a part in the murders, since his DNA was also found in the crime scene.
ReplyDeleteThe John Vollman case was important because this was the first time hair analysis had really been used, and they're was evidence that pointed to john, but it was really only found when his hair was found in gaetene's hand.
1. Robert Curly died from suspected poisoning. Scientists used hair to find out how exactly Curly died. It turned out that Curly was poisoned with a metal based toxin.
ReplyDelete2. The John Vollman case was so famous is because of the hairs found. The investigators compared the sulfer to phosphorus radiation levels between Vollman and his victim, Gaetane. This was the first case that neutron activation analysis was used to determine what happened.
O.J. Simpsons case had a lot of evidence including his hair.
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Also known as the Texas Eyeball serial killer, Charles Albright. They took a hair off on a blanket and it linked him to the case.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a major case because it happened in such a rural area and its not very often an area like this can determine who a murderer is by just a piece of hair.
1. There was a case in which a wife had killed her husband in order to collect life insurance money. At first when the husband was found dead the cause of death was unknown. They later took samples of his hair and examined it finding that he was poisoned with a rat poisoning. The wife confessed to poisoning her husband.
ReplyDelete2. It is a famous case because the main piece of evidence solving the case was a piece of hair belonging to John Vollman which was identified due to the high amount of sulfur in his hair.
1.) Henry Lee Polk was charged with first degree murder of Stephen M. Nolte on March 7, 2004. Nolte's body was found inside his house in Kansas City. There were no traces left behind except for strands of cat hair were found in Nolte's blood soaked pockets. But he had no cats. One of the suspects Polk had many cats, so a search warrant was achieved and investigators got samples for all of Polk's cats. Two of the hairs found in Nolte's pocket matched two of Polk's cats. The was arrested and charged with Nolte's murder.
ReplyDelete2.)The John Vollman case was very special because it was the first time they ever used neutron activation analysis to convict a person of murder. Vollman was convicted after a single hair found at the crime scene match his hair.
The man who was involved with four other women's wife went out horse back riding one day when her horse came back without her. She as found dead and there were hairs found on her. *Horse-brown
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people can easily be placed at the scene because the women he was involved with have that color hair and some have cats. Forensics can tell if the hair has been dyed or treated as well so it isnt really hard.
1.In the book it states that Napoleon died of unknown causes but t is later to be found that he died from arsenic poisoning not by family or close friends but most likely from the wall paper that they had used.
ReplyDelete2.This is such a famous case because it is the first time hair analysis was used to uncover the victim of a crime or murder.
The Ross case was solved with hair analysis coming from the blanket.
ReplyDeleteThis case was important because they used neutron activation analysis.
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ReplyDeleteThe was a woman that got killed at her home and they thought that the husband killed her but later in the process they found hair from her ex-boy friend, he was later convicted for the murder.
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The case was so important because it was a local case that no one expected to happen and it was the first case that atomic evidence was lead to an immediate conviction.
1. Napoleon was thought to have died by arsenic poisoning because they found it in his hair.
ReplyDeleteNapoleon was thought to have died by arsenic poisoning because they examined his hair and found arsenic.
ReplyDeleteThis case is important because it was the first time that they used hair analysis to convict a person.
1.) The murder case of Amy Schulz was solved through hair analysis. Two hairs were found left on Amy's body and were said to be from the killer.They tested the hair and convicted him of murder through this hair analysis and fibers from Amy's clothing found in his car. He was given the death sentence.
ReplyDelete2.) The Vollman case was very interesting because they used Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) for the first time ever to formally convict Vollman of the murder of Ms. Bouchard. His hair found between Bouchard's fingers was analyzed and tested, matching the known sample of hair from Vollman. The found hair and Vollman's were respectively 1.07 and 1.02.
2. It is such a famous case because it was the first case in which atomic evidence led to a conviction.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1) In 1982, microscopic hair analysis of strands found on the body of a victim was used and Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson were framed for the murder. Seventeen years later, DNA analysis of the same hair fragments was used to prove that these men were innocent.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 2) This case has become famous world-wide because in this case, the investigators used a new type of evidence finding called a neutron activation analysis (NAA). In this case, NAA showed that the hair in Bouchard’s hand contained a ratio of sulfur to phosphorus that was much closer to Vollman’s hair than her own. At the trial, Vollman confessed to the murder when confronted with the hair analysis results. This was the first time NAA hair analysis was used to convict a criminal.
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ReplyDeleteIn the overly controversial case revolving 2 year old Caylee Anthony and her mother Casey Anthony hair analysis did not come into play until much later. When Casey was tried with the first degree murder of her daughter, the irresponsible mother fought back with fury. When mysterious hair was found in the TRUNK of mother, Casey's, car, she claimed that it had originated from her daughter's blanket, which had been placed in the trunk. Forensic Scientists worked to prove/disprove this statement by testing the hair. They aimed for proving that the hair had originated from a dead body, and came close after proving that the hair was apparently telogenic, or dead at the time that it was removed from the scalp.
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Because they used NAA (Neutral Activation Analysis). After using NAA, they were able to confirm that the hair was more similar to the suspects hair, and when confronted, he admitted to the crime.
1.Cold cases are often solved by dna and hair that they couldn't test then, that they are able to now. RUBIDOUX (CBS 2)was one of these, the victem was found clutching hair in his hand that was possibly from the suspect, they tested it then and it wasn't a positive match. Earlier this year the hair samples were sent out again and they matched the suspect.
ReplyDelete2.The Vollman case was so popular and unique because they used Nuetron activation analysis, but since it is so expensive it fell out of favor and is rarely used
1). a case that was left unsolved using hair analysis was the OJ Simpson Trial the detectives matched fibers from Ron Goldmans person to that on Oj He was later found guilty at a civil trial.
ReplyDelete2). Because it was a culture shock to two very small communities also NAA was used for the first time
ReplyDelete1. A famous case that used hair analysis was the Napolean case in which his hair was analyzed and found to have arsenic in it, which could be what was used to kill him purposely or accidentally.
2. This case was very famous because it was one of the first time that neutron activation analysis was used in a lab and proved a suspect to be guilty. The hair found in Gaetene's hand was proven to be Vollaman's because of the identical elements found in his hair and the hair from the crime scene.
1.)According to Dr. Black, he and his team were able to determine that the strands of hair represented nine months growth and belonged to a person who lived in the United Kingdom. The person, however, had traveled abroad on 2 occasions, and had changed their diet twice in the 3 months prior to the hair being cut. According to a Dorset Police document, the person in question had traveled to "the Valencia-to-Almeria area of eastern Spain and/or the Marseille-to-Perpignan area of southern France for up to six days," approximately eleven weeks before the strands were cut. Afterward, the person visited an urban area of Tampa, Florida., for eight days, approximately two to two and a half weeks before the hair was cut.
ReplyDelete2.) This case was famous because it was the first time they did neutron activation analysis.
1) Riverside County sheriff's homicide detectives solved the 1977 murder of a Rubidoux bartender by submitting hair found clenched in the victim's hand. DNA showed that the hair belonged to Frank Wright, who died in 2002.
ReplyDelete2) The case was very famous because it was the first time that detectives had used neutron activation analysis.
1.) A young girl, Alma Tirtsche, was found strangled and bludgeoned to death in Melborne, Australia, in 1922. Her body had been wrapped in a blanket and left in an ally way. As investigation proceeded, ColinRoss became a suspect. Police searched his home and obtained two more blankets, that they sent to Dr. Charles Taylor for analysis. On one he found two reddish gold hair, the same color of Alma's. Dr Taylor determined that the hairs were human, and most Likely female. He also concluded, because the hairs were so darkly pigmented, it must be from a young person. Some of the hairs had roots, which suggested that they were pulled out during a violent encounter. Colin Ross was found guilty to murder, and hung four days later.
ReplyDelete2.) This case was famous because is was the first in which atomic evidence was led to a conviction
ReplyDelete1. Dr. Black, and his team were able to determine that the strands of hair represented nine months' growth and belonged to a person who lived in the United Kingdom. The person, however, had traveled abroad on two occasions, and had changed their diet twice in the three months prior to the hair being cut. According to a Dorset Police document, the person in question had traveled to "the Valencia-to-Almeria area of eastern Spain" approximately eleven weeks before the strands were cut.
2. This case was important because it was the first time that scientist used neutron activation analysis.
1. Although there was many other incriminating evidence to convict OJ Simpson of murdering his wife, hair played an important part of the case. 41. Hairs found in the knit cap match OJ's. A hair matching OJ's was found on Goldman's shirt, a 12 inch hair watching Nicole's was found on a bloody glove and the matching glove was found on OJ's within hours of the murders contains a hair with the same microscopic characteristics as Ron's and Nicole's.
ReplyDelete2. The case is famous because it was the first time a scientist used neutron activation analysis.
1.) In 1987, 10 year old Amy Schulz was murdered. They had hit a dead end on the case until they found 2 hairs on Amy's body. They also found fibers from Amy's clothes in Cecil Sutherland's car (the suspect). Sutherland would say it's coincidence and that they couldn't prove it. After fiber and hair analysis was preformed, it was confirmed and Sutherland was sentenced to death.
ReplyDelete2.) it was the first case where neutron activation analysis was used.