among the twisted metal and broken glass, however, CSIs found part of a cars frame. It had a vehicle identification number on it. Police records matched the number with a car owned by a car-rental company in New Jersey. The police quickly arrested the man who had rented the car.
Tire tracks can also be especially useful. Every tire has an easy to-see tread, a pattern of lines in the rubber. Even without special equipment, police can often see this pattern in mud, on grass, or even on the surface of a hard road near a crime scene.
A case in the state of Minnesota is a good example. The police tried for four years to find a criminal who had set several forest fires. Then they found an old tire track, obviously from a truck, at the edge of a burned-out for An officer took a picture and tried to match the tread pattern to the tires of trucks he saw around town. Finally, he found a perfect match, and the truck's owner confessed to starting the fires. be sent to crime 7 Most trace evidence is harder to analyze. It must it. For example inment can identify llli inah