1000 Forensic Things You Have Learnt From CSI

[patluver144]

58. Superglue seals wounds. Athletes use it on wounds because it stops the bleeding instantly.

 

[Dynamo1]

patluver144 said:
58. Superglue seals wounds. Athletes use it on wounds because it stops the bleeding instantly.

I believe that. When ever I try to glue pieces of wood or ceramics together, the only thing superglue sticks to are my fingers.

 

[Grissom]

patluver144 said:

53. A stabber always cuts himself during a stabbing.

not realy, i have know cases where people has not susstaned cuts on there hands

 

[that_girl1]

59. Your hair can record the drugs that your body takes in. Example: If you do cocaine or smoke pot then your hair will show that.

 

[lostladyknight]

speedymeg25 said:
I think that this is from one of the CSI's, but I'm not entirely sure:

42. You can tell if a person is lying or not by the way that they move their eyes and by the direction that they look in.
I think that it's if you are looking to the left, you are probably lying or making something up.

CSI: LV. It was the episode where Catherine Investigates the death of a girl on one of the love boat rides at a fair.

 

[Marns]

60. If a person was poisoned with heavy metal (I think), his or her fingernails will show Mees lines.

 

[animequeen23]

61. That you can lift a print from an apple. You just need to use electromagnetic print powder. (Thanks Eric, because that was our goal in life, to lift a print off an apple :lol

 

[SpeedyMeg25]

62. The 3 main types of asphyxiation are strangulation, suffocation, and choking.

 

[animequeen23]

eggbe4thechicken said:
57. I've learnt the lingo. :lol: Just to explain, I might not know what the terms all mean in detail, but I can recognise the terms, etc and vaguely understand most of the things they refer to.

Yeah, over the years I've watched CSI, I have started to understand what they're talking about when they start to go off in scientific technical mode...

 

[animequeen23]

63. Peat moss can preserve a body for many years without the body deteriorating.

 

[sidlewannabee]

I have learned several things on CSI.
64. Rule of 3, 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food.

 

[catheline]

65. The human body has over 200 bones.
66. An adult human has about 5 quarts (4.7 liters) of blood.
67. A dog's sense of smell is about 25 times more powerful than ours. (although it’s said on Internet that it’s 50 -100 times more powerful than ours).
68. Identical twins have the same DNA.

I already knew some of these things but I got confirmation to that, that they are true.

 

[sidlewannabee]

There are 206 bones to be exact.

69. There are certain types of bugbites that you can put nail polish on it and it would stop the itching.

 

[Lizard01]

70. cocaine stays in your body for 3 weeks.
71. you can take teeth impressions with plasta of paris

 

[bookgirl20]

72. A staple gun leaves stria (spelling?) on a staple like a gun does on a bullett