The Importance of Shoe Impression Evidence in Criminal Cases

Shoe impressions can be very helpful. If you have a sole pattern, an outsole pattern that is rare, imagine, oh, just maybe bring up a 1990 OJ Simpson case and you have Bruno Malley outsole patterns in victims blood at the crime scene. You know, so it is helpful. But oftentimes we recover shoe impression evidence and it comes back to the most popular make and model shoe in the world. And you go, okay, that doesn't help me. It's not until I recover the suspect shoes and some something, whether it be shoe comparisons or there's physical evidence on the victim's blood, et cetera, where things start to really add up