rogerbox
06-09-2011, 11:49 AM
I was reading at this (http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/unsolved/hair_in_hand_murders/5.html) site the following:
According to Dr. Black, he and his team were able to determine that the strands of hair represented nine months' growth and belonged to a person who lived in the United Kingdom. The person, however, had traveled abroad on two occasions, and had changed their diet twice in the three months prior to the hair being cut. According to a Dorset Police document, the person in question had traveled to "the Valencia-to-Almeria area of eastern Spain and/or the Marseille-to-Perpignan area of southern France for up to six days," approximately eleven weeks before the strands were cut. Afterward, the person visited an urban area of Tampa, Florida., for eight days, approximately two to two and a half weeks before the hair was cut.
I can easily believe that the hair strands like a ring of a tree, can show diet changes over time. But how can they single out with such astonishing accuracy where the person had been? I would be impressed with "Went from a clean rural place to a polluted urban inner city", but police in the UK can tell when someone had been to TAMPA by their hair? :dubious:
According to Dr. Black, he and his team were able to determine that the strands of hair represented nine months' growth and belonged to a person who lived in the United Kingdom. The person, however, had traveled abroad on two occasions, and had changed their diet twice in the three months prior to the hair being cut. According to a Dorset Police document, the person in question had traveled to "the Valencia-to-Almeria area of eastern Spain and/or the Marseille-to-Perpignan area of southern France for up to six days," approximately eleven weeks before the strands were cut. Afterward, the person visited an urban area of Tampa, Florida., for eight days, approximately two to two and a half weeks before the hair was cut.
I can easily believe that the hair strands like a ring of a tree, can show diet changes over time. But how can they single out with such astonishing accuracy where the person had been? I would be impressed with "Went from a clean rural place to a polluted urban inner city", but police in the UK can tell when someone had been to TAMPA by their hair? :dubious: