29 | Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Usefulness of a Chemist at the Crime Scene
If someone is poisoned or something like that, I could absolutely understand the usefulness of a chemist. If someone's shot or knifed, is there still things for the chemist to do at the crime scene? There may be. And so presumptive tests for that or they would actually collect, you know, swab hands very similar to what some, you know,. you get screened for testing at the airport. But also, let's say...you're trying to say, okay, is this red brown stain? Is it blood or not? Then you would do some type of chemical presumptive test or even okay, so it is blood, but is it human? Then you might do an immun
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