New Forensic Technique To Help Solve Decade-old Case

Visualizing fingerprints maybe the shorttest and simplest way to describe a new technique that will be used by the Bristol Police Department to help solve a decade-old murder case in Bristol, Connecticut.
The police department, in collaboration with expert, who pioneered the said technique will be probing into the murderof a businessman who was shot in the bedroom of his own home. An expert is the scientific support manager at northamptonshire fellow at the University of Leicester Forensic Rsearcher Centre.
The technique will enable scientists to “visualize fingerprints”on metals, such as bullet casings, even after the print itself has been removed. Expert ,along with his colleagues conducted a study intothe way finger prints can corrode metal surfaces.
This new method will be utilized to help shed some light on the unresolved murder of Bristol businessman, Louis Lafontaine, who was found shot death in his Connecticut home in 1998.
According to detective,”expert proccedure is a tremendous advancement in forensic science, and has the potential to be a valuable tool in many criminal investigations.
Detectives have logged countless hours into this investigation since 1998, and have developed a great deal of information on the facts and circumstances surrounding the murder of Mr. Lafontaine. Fingerprints evidence on a shell casing would certainly bring us much closer to identifying Mr. LaFontaine’s killer.”