NATS 1575 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Hemoglobin, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, Mattress
24 May 2017
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Beaten by a hair (conviction before body was found) after laura disappeared, police found a peculiar strand of hair found in her hair brush. When detectives searched laura"s bedroom they noticed that her sheet and mattress pad were missing from her bed. 4 days after laura disappeared, investigators found a bloody pillow and pillow case in the woods by laura"s house. The blood on the pillow case was type a, laura"s type. Police hound dog was given some of laura"s clothing to get a sense of her smell. The dog led them to the tree in the woods where the bloody pillow and pillow case were found, and the dog also led them back to laura"s back door. (police suspected foul play). To determine if the blood was laura"s, blood samples were taken from laura"s mother and her brother. Using rflp, it determined that the blood found on the pillow was laura"s.
