Bonus: Glitter's Connection To Forensic Science

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🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for some extra sparkle on the heels of last week’s deep dive into “The Great Glitter Mystery.” Retired Forensic Scientist Ed Jones has one of the world’s largest glitter collections. And his side hobby has served him well over the years – glitter helped him solve a murder case back in 2001.

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0:00.0	Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston.
0:05.0	If you missed the last week's episode about the great glitter mystery, stop right now.
0:12.9	Do not pass go.
0:13.9	Do not collect $200.
0:15.6	Go listen to that right now and then come back for this sweet sweet bonus content.
0:22.4	But if you did listen to the great glitter mystery, you are in for some extra sparkle
0:26.8	right now, my friend.
0:29.2	As you heard in the episode, we went down a lot of rabbit holes and we talked to a lot
0:34.3	of people while we were trying to figure out the largest mystery customer of the New Jersey
0:39.9	glitter manufacturer named GlitterX.
0:43.2	During our quest, it became clear that some of the people we talked to, the rabbit holes
0:48.1	we dove down, could be episodes in and of themselves, which is how we get today's snack time.
0:56.0	About someone who told us without any clues that he thought GlitterX's largest customer
1:02.7	was connected to the paint industry.
1:05.7	That would be my guess.
1:07.2	Whose guess?
1:08.2	Ed Jones' guess.
1:09.8	Well, I hope I could give a good guess.
1:12.7	Ed better hope he could give a good guess because he's got credentials.
1:16.7	You want us to present those credentials?
1:18.8	Ed's got what it's thought to be the largest glitter collection in the world.
1:23.7	More than 1,000 unique samples.
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