Joe Scott Morgan

Maybe it was transferred over onto the mat, but this thing's not collected.

The big question, and I pose this to you, Nancy, how in the hell are you going to analyze something if you don't collect it and take it back to be analyzed?

Well, light works at various different spectrums.

And so you need to have a controlled environment.

When you see the tint essentially there, if that in fact is what they were using it for, you want to be able to shut down and control the amount of light that's coming in because you're going to be using what's referred to as alternative light sources.

This can be things like infrared.

There's certainly other things that we apply at scenes.

And what you're trying to pick up on are little nuances that are gonna luminesce through this varied light spectrum that we can actually document photographically.

And we do it in real time.

And here's the real crux of this.

We have to do it in an environment where the evidence is collected in what's referred to as in situ.

That means in place, so it's a reference point.

If you take a shot,

And a reference point relative to that door, in the event that this thing does go to jury, they have that point of context so that they can absolutely understand it and contextualize it.

Yeah, that train left the station a long, long time ago, Nancy.

You know, anything that you would find right now at this point in time, you would have great questions that would be asked about the veracity of the evidence, whether or not it was still valid, load these many weeks.

So, yeah, I mean, listen, I don't care what level you're at as an investigator.

They're just some basic tenets that you hold to.

And the number one thing is security of the scene.

And it's not just the scene.