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Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?
I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.
ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.
Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.
My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.
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