ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 3

Using an Alternate Light Source to Restore Writing
Smith, JW
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada

Leaver, WL
Forensic Science Laboratories, California

(Received 1 July 1998; accepted 1 September 1998)

Abstract

This case report will describe the method by which writing that was washed off a bathroom wall was restored. The writing was recovered using an Alternate Light Source. The vehicle/carrier of the removed ink reacted to the ALS but no reaction resulted from infrared examination. The examiners were able to make a permanent record of the lost writing through photographic methods.

Keywords:
forensic science, alternate light source, luminescence, handwriting

Paper ID: JFS14526J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS14526J
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