Revealing a decades-old fingermark with cyanoacrylate fuming and rhodamine 6G

Maralee Tapps; Laurence McMullen; Marie-Eve Gagné; Alexandre Beaudoin

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.04.025

Revealing a decades-old fingermark with cyanoacrylate fuming and rhodamine 6G

Forensic Sci Int. 2019 Jul:300:e9-e12. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.04.025. Epub 2019 May 2.

Authors

Maralee Tapps¹, Laurence McMullen², Marie-Eve Gagné³, Alexandre Beaudoin⁴

Affiliations

¹ Sûreté du Québec, 1701 Parthenais Street, Montreal, QC H2K 3S7, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Sûreté du Québec, 1701 Parthenais Street, Montreal, QC H2K 3S7, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Sûreté du Québec, 1701 Parthenais Street, Montreal, QC H2K 3S7, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁴ Sûreté du Québec, 1701 Parthenais Street, Montreal, QC H2K 3S7, Canada; Laboratoire de Recherche en Criminalistique de l'UQTR, 3351 Boulevard des Forges, Trois-Rivières, QC G8Z 4M3, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 31078350
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.04.025

Abstract

Cyanoacrylate fuming, rhodamine 6G staining and 532 nm laser light visualization were used to reveal a thirty-year-old fingermark on a plastic bag discovered at a double homicide scene.

Keywords: Cold case; Cyanoacrylate fuming; Laser; Latent fingerprint; Plastic bag; Rhodamine 6G.