Hair and Fiber Diagrams

Hair

PPT #1 - Hair characteristics

• Handout for notes on hair

Lab #4 - Hair analysis Part 1 (observing hair) 

Lab #5 - Hair analysis Part 2 (mystery)

Case Study #5 (Central Park Jogger) and 6 (Ennis Cosby)

"Troubling case turns on a strand of evidence" Questions

• Article can be found here: Boston Globe Sept 6, 2015, Page B1 and B4

Fiber

Chapter 4 Fiber Notes PPT 

• Note taking outline for PPT

Lab #6 - Microscopic and Burn Analysis of Fibers

Fiber Burn Test Key

Case #7 - Wayne Williams (and the Atlanta Child Murders)

• Recent news on the Atlanta Child Murders:

  • https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/atlanta-police-sending-four-decade-old-deteriorated-dna-from-child-murders-to-private-lab/

  • https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/atlanta-child-murders-evidence-salt-lake-city-lab/85-f926c4d0-f33d-486f-b47a-9a95fd41e7d1 

• There are also TWO documentary series about this case.  

  • One on HBO - Altanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children

  • One on Apple TV -  The Atlanta Child Murders

Unit 3 Study Guide

Lab Practical #1 Study Guide