Planted Evidence: Plant DNA Forensics:VIDEO, The pager found near a tree and beside a murdered woman linked the crime to the prime suspect—but only circumstantially. Could the tree’s seed pods, found at the crime scene and in the suspect’s truck, prove conclusive?

Criminology

Planted Evidence: Plant DNA Forensics

The pager found near a tree and beside a murdered woman linked the
crime to the prime suspect—but only circumstantially. Could the tree’s seed pods, found at the crime scene and in the suspect’s truck, prove conclusive? This program presents the growing use of nonhuman DNA as admissible evidence, as molecular geneticist Tim Helentjaris applies Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA testing to quantifiably match the seed pods to the tree in question.

24 minutes
Copyright date: ©1996

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