CRIMINAL MISCHIEF 6: Modern Crime Fiction

Is It Harder To Write Crime Fiction Today?

 

Do modern forensic science and police investigative techniques make creating compelling crime fiction more difficult? Are there simply too many balls to keep in the air? Too much to consider? Or is now little different from then?

 

The Past, the present, and the future

 

Forensic Science timeline—-a fairly knew discipline

 

Basic Science, then Medicine, finally forensic science

 

Personal ID

Visual

Bertillon

West Case

Facial recognition

Behavioral Profiling

Prints, ABO type, DNA, DNA Phenotype

 

Fingerprints—-then and now

 

Vucetich—the Rojas case

Stella Nickell Case

Touch DNA

Touch Toxicology

 

Toxicology

From arsenic to GC/MS

 

Blood Typing

ABO can exclude but not ID

 

DNA

Nuclear

Mitochondrial

Familial—Grim Sleeper case

Phenotypic Analysis

 

Electronics—cell phones, computers, emails, texts, VMs