Based on the Jon Benet Ramsey case some of the evidence that would help to solve the case would have been Fingerprints that may have been taken from the window that was supposedly broken from the previous summer. Written documents such as the ransom letter that was left at the crime scene. If the window was broken from the outside there should be footprints or smudge marks in the dirt from the intruder and also the broken glass from the window. John Ramsey stated that the glass in the basement was broken from the outside and in order for the investigators to determine if the glass was truly broken from the outside they can check to see if there is any glass outside of the house below the window just like john found pieces of glass inside the house. Also they can look at the different shapes of the glass, the edges of the glass will be different if it was broken on the outside rather than the inside. The glass evidence at the Ramsey house was a very important piece of evidence because the Ramsey’s stated that the house was broken into the previous summer but the question was why John felt the need to explain the fact that his window had been broken into that previous summer before they had even found his missing child, also why is it that this man of wealth left this window broken since the summer rather than getting it fixed. The glass that was found by the broken window if taken into evidence would have been a very important piece of evidence because it would help to determine if someone had truly broken into the Ramsey’s house or if the window had been broken from the inside. Yes if the glass evidence was collected and preserved the proper way it would have an impact on the lab results because when evidence is collected at a crime scene everything has to be collected put into separate containers, photographed documented properly and the investigator whom collect the evidence have to make sure that they use the proper equipment in order to make sure that they don’t contaminate the evidence, if the evidence is contaminated in anyway it could be considered inadmissible in court. In the reading it states that the collection and preservation of evidence should have all of these things done by the books in order to be admissible in court and also if the investigator is asked to testify in court the information collected should be available to answer any question in court.

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