You’ve heard “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
Well, there are new warnings for those inclined to cheat the law: Don’t do the crime, cause you’ll be caught with the slime. I can also guarantee that it’s gonna hurt when they find the dirt.
Why? Because scientists (those clever, brainy guys and girls in white lab coats) have taken the first steps in developing a new method of identifying movements of criminals.
How?
By using chemical analysis of soil and dust found on equipment, clothing, and cars (EZ-screen plants are so good they’re exempt). This new technology allows police to match soil traces found on personal items to regional soil samples. That either implicates or eliminates that the individual crook was at the scene of a crime.
Conventional soil analysis has already been used to identify and prosecute criminals, but the new process takes it a few steps further. The breakthrough work is that it “integrates robust compositional data analysis of the multivariate geochemical data into forensic geoscience and applies this in an innovative way to forensic soil provenance.” Whew! That was a mouthful!
So beware because you’ll be judged when they find the sludge!
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