Are These Crime Drama Clues Fact or Fiction?
Published January 26, 2016
I’m often just as surprised by what forensic scientists can’t do as by what they can. In the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, for instance, the question of whether police planted the main character’s blood at a crime scene comes down to whether or not the FBI can detect a common laboratory chemical called EDTA in a bloodstain.
On a TV crime show, this would be a snap…