Hey, everyone, it's Jen.

And this is Lindsay.

And welcome back to Corpus DeLicti.

This episode, we are bringing you a brand new one of a new series, and it is called Forensic Breakthrough.

Yeah, we wanted to use a name that was suggested in our group because it was super fun,

but we couldn't figure out how to pronounce it.

So we had to kind of backtrack, and it was DNA, but like nailed it, like the D was there,

and then the N-A and DNA was the first letters of nailed it.

But we couldn't figure out how it would be pronounced. So, but we really liked that suggestion.

But yes, so this is the forensic breakthrough series. It's going to be about cases that were

solved through new or novel ways at that time. Some of them may be more common

now, but we'll kind of get the backstory on where they came from and why they're so important.

And this is a good transition story because not only does it have a forensic breakthrough at the

time, it also has something else that we've just

finished covering. So to kind of talk about what we're doing is we're going to talk about DNA

and more specifically touch DNA. In its most basic explanation, when you touch something,

you leave your skin cells on that object,

which allows scientists to analyze it and get a DNA pattern from it.

It only takes 7 to 8 cells to get the DNA genetic makeup.

It also has been super heavily criticized since the fingerprint brushes that they use by many

crime scene investigators, you know, they get it and they dust it and it reveals fingerprints.

Well, those little hairs on their brush pick up sales and can redeposit them on another item.

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