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Introduction to
Stained With Suspicion
elcome to Stained with Suspicion, a blood substances for the presence of blood, learn how
detection and evidence processing lab in police officers and forensic technicians properly
Wthe Mystery of Lyle and Louise. A brutal process evidence, test the carpet collected at the
murder case is unfolding in a small Appalachian crime scene for the presence of blood, and, using
town. Already the case spans two crime scenes the information obtained in their experiment, form a
and five people are dead. When a truck is found hypothesis about the events surrounding the crime.
abandoned on the highway in New Mexico,
investigators find dark stains upon the carpet. The Once the lab results have been analyzed, students
stains appeared to be mud, but police officers cut may conduct a mock trial to hold a suspect
and removed a section of carpet to be tested for accountable for their actions.
the presence of blood.
Teacher’s notes can be found at the beginning of
In this lab, students will learn about presumptive the manual and copies may be freely made of all
tests for blood detection. They will test several materials for your students.
4 THE MYSTERY OF LYLE AND LOUISE
