TANNER CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CRIME-FIGHTING TOOL: HAIR REVEALS WHERE MURDER VICTIMS DRANK WATER
February 25, 2008
February 25, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 25 -- The University of Utah issued the following news release:
University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
"You are what you eat and drink - and that is recorded in your hair," says geochemist Thure (pronounced Tur-ee) Cerling, who led the res . . .
University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
"You are what you eat and drink - and that is recorded in your hair," says geochemist Thure (pronounced Tur-ee) Cerling, who led the res . . .