"...in one notable recorded case in 1784, the Bow Street Runners removed a torn piece of paper wadding from a bullet wound in the head of a murder victim who had been shot at point-blank range. ... this loading process required the shooter to be in possession of dry gunpowder, wadding paper, and musket balls to reload and make the weapon ready to fire. The Bow Street Runners considered this weapon loading practice and knew their shooter might be in possession of wadding paper. Upon searching their prime suspect, they did find him in possession of that kind of paper and, in a clever forensic innovation for their time, they physically matched the torn edges of wadding paper found in the victim’s wound to a larger sheet of wadding paper found in the pocket of their suspect. From this evidence, the accused was convicted of murder" (inte en primärkälla).
Så jag skulle vilja fråga den församlade svartkrutsexpertisen hur realistiskt det här är. Det är rimligt att en pappersförladdning inte skulle brinna upp, iaf bli så pass skadad att man inte skulle kunna matcha en avriven bit till det ark den revs ifrån?
(Oerhört stora bonuspoäng för den som gör ett experiment och postar bilderna.
*) Introduction to Criminal Investigation: Processes, Practices and Thinking by Rod Gehl, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, (https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/text ... d-thinking" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)




