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How the US Forest Service’s Forest Products Lab Helped Solve the “Crime of the Century”

September 19, 2012 Robert H. Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

In the early 1930’s, before the age of DNA and forensics, piecing together the evidence of a crime scene was a difficult task involving fingerprints (if you could get them), eyewitness accounts (if there were any), or a confession (not likely). Law enforcement had none of these as they tried to...

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