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Activity Originally Created By: Jay Crawford

A Hair Raising Scene

Part of Lesson Plan: Hair - What Does it Tell the Investigator

Activity Overview / Details

You receive a call of a person lying on the sidewalk, not moving. You respond and find a lady lying on the sidewalk. She is suffering from a stab wound. She is unconscious. Her right hand is clinched into a fist. Protruding from the fist are several hairs. She does not regain consciousness. An ambulance arrives to transport her to the hospital but, en route, she dies. A canvas of the area fails to produce any witnesses.

What can the hairs tell you about what happened and who was involved?