A Green Wool Fiber Is Recovered from a Blanket Used

question 19

Multiple Choice

A green wool fiber is recovered from a blanket used to cover a homicide victim found in a shallow grave. The investigation leads to a suspect and green fibers are collected from the carpeting in the truck of the suspect's car. The analyst uses FTIR, UV-VIS, and microscopic examination to compare the two samples (Q vs K) . All of the following are potential results except

• A) Inclusion - the fiber from the victim could have come from the car
• B) definitive proof that the fiber from the victim came from the car
• C) exclusion - the fiber could not have come from the car
• D) indeterminate - more fibers would be needed to characterize within sample variation
• E) none of the above

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