Problems of Forensic Sciences 2001 Vol. 46 (XLVI) 239-248
CHANCES AND LIMITATIONS OPERATING WITH POTENTIALLY CRIME-RELEVANT TEXTILE FIBRE TRACES
Michael STAUBER
Landeskriminalamt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Streszczenie
In forensic fibre laboratories, the elaboration of tapings may provide investigators with useful hints for finding evidence about potentially crime-relevant items such as clothes worn by the perpetrator. In the past years there have been some casuistic examples depicting the fibre examination of so-called “Leitspuren” with successful outcomes. The present paper likewise deals with this approach showing a possible systematic procedure of working. Keeping within these boundaries, limitations respectively sources of error and misinterpretations which may result from laboratory and police work with potentially crime-relevant textile fibre traces, will be pointed out. Finally, the balance between chances and risks of this kind of examination will be stricken on the basis of the experience of a routine case work laboratory.
Słowa kluczowe
Fibres; Police procedure; Laboratory procedure.