Following in their footsteps
A shoe has been recovered that might have been at the scent of a crime. How should I work out if it matches?
Compare the sole with a photograph from the crime scene.
Hold the shoe up to a cast of the footwear mark taken from the crime scene.
Make a cast of the shoe and compare it to the cast from the crime scene.
None of the above.
There is a trail of footprints in the snow. How should I recover this as evidence?
Photograph the trail and individual prints.
Pour dental stone into the footwear marks to take a cast.
Use expanding foam spray to take an impression of the marks.
Spray the mark with Snow impression wax and then take a cast with dental stone.
There is a footwear mark in the child's sand pit. The sand is dry but there is a clear mark. How can I take the impression without damaging the evidence?
Carefully pour dental stone into the mark.
Spray hairspray over the mark and then add dental stone.
Expanding foam spray is really useful for this type of mark.
Use Sulphur concrete to take the impression of the mark.
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