Mike Silverman (nonfiction)

Forensic scientist Mike Silverman.

Mike Silverman is a forensic scientist.

"Time travel murder"

A woman, murdered in London in 1997, was taken to the lab for analysis. After searching under her fingernails investigators found a match to another woman whom they suspected to be the killer. However, the woman who came up as a match had been murdered herself three weeks prior to the incident. Investigators were confused as they could not find any correlation between the two women. Finally they came to the conclusion that the mix-up must somehow have stemmed from the forensics lab. After investigating the process in which the DNA was collected they discovered that a single pair of scissors was used to cut both woman's nails. Although they were washed in between, there was still enough DNA to contaminate the scene.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Crime (nonfiction)

External links

• Contaminated evidence @ Wikipedia
• The strange case of the 'time travel' murder - Mike Silverman (28 April 2014)
• Written in Blood by Mike Silverman