Hair can be distiguished from vegetable fiber by flame. Heat causes hair to knot at end. Fiber burns square.
In many instances, shoe scrapings will prove that the owner was in the vicinity where the crime occurred
Seeds found adhering to the trousers of a suspect proved to be from a rare plant found only in the garden of the murder viction. Conviction followed.
Glass fragments, safe insulation, wood, paint chips and other debris found on clothing of suspect puts him at the scene.
