FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Stereo Microscope, Cheque, Relative Dating
Document Summary
Conducts a technical examination of a document to determine its authenticity and/or its relationship to a person, thing, event, or time. Minimum education bachelor of science, honours. 2 years of mentored full time apprenticeship to develop strong theoretical grounding. Collected from: crime scene: suicide notes, complainant: threatening letters, banks: cheques and mortgage papers. Indentations are identified with esda: types of cases where esda is useful. Anonymous and threatening notes: anthrax notes, school bomb notes. Cases where sequence of entries is an issue: doctors records, accounting books. Video spectral comparator 2000 (vsc: visual spectrum shows that different inks react differently when it becomes legible, used to compare different kinds of ink. Somebody may have added more numbers on a cheque to get a higher pay-out, this is fraudulent and the vsc can detect the ink being added or changed. Not done at cfs, not yet scientifically proven to our satisfaction.
