I recently published an article here on my blog about the importance of a forensic investigator to have the ability of paying attention to even the smallest details out there. While something like this might be an overload of information for an ordinary person, a professional investigator can lose the direction of the real intention of a criminal when ignoring a lot of important evidence. The crime scene is always full of various types of data that forensic investigators are obliged to gather and to closely analyze. It’s not always easy to do it, but it is a step that is necessary to be always perfectly and scientifically done. The documentation of the marks that you or the person who works as a forensic managed to identify is crucial. If any evidence is left unnoticed, it might stop the whole process and there won’t be any leads for detectives to start their work.

Another important chapter in this whole world of crimes deal is marks identification. Forensic investigators need to be able to run various types of tests (we’ve talked about DNA tests before) that could help in unveiling at least some information that might be of use, either about the victim, or even about the criminal. My good old friend Joe who also worked as a forensic claimed that an expert in this field of activity should have the knowledge, the willpower, the courage and the ability to take a bitten apple for careful analysis and to use the bite marks as identification. Do you know that your teeth can be a great way to identify many particular traits that are going to offer the chance for a closer background check of a certain individual? I didn’t, until my friend Joe actually told me this. It seems that the forms of your teeth can be taken and used as fingerprints, because there are no two persons out there in this whole world and Universe probably with the same teeth.

A professional should understand that there are hundreds of various types of marks that he or she needs to be able to understand when working as a forensic investigator. For example, doing various blood and chemical tests, DNA and fingerprint analysis is not always the type of work that you are going to be required to do when during your work. This science also offer a great importance to your ability of trying to determine and detect the mood of the person (either the criminal or the victim) based on his own handwriting. I personally had the chance to identify a mental unstable serial killer after the shaken handwriting type that he had. These are also traits and important marks that can reveal a lot of precious information about a certain case when doing any type of investigation. Forensic guys are universal people because they are required to have knowledge starting with physics, psychology, chemistry, justice, anatomy, law and many more. Everything related to the life a certain human being can be regarded as a mark that identifies something.

Forensic investigators should also be able to run a test on the purity of water in a glass that was found at the place of murder. While for most of the people that have absolutely no clue about how to gather evidence and to pay attention to even the smallest details, the glass filed with muddy water makes no difference. The person is dead and an investigation needs to be done in order to get the murderer. What difference does the purity of water in the glass makes after all. However, a forensic investigators need to be able to take probes of evidence of basically everything that looks a little bit suspect. Due to the fact that his lab is super high tech and offers the chance for plenty of chemical tests to be help, doing that water inspection test should be no problem for him. I would like to say that sometimes, it is just a matter of several seconds to understand the connection of muddy water from a glass and the intentions of the criminal that is guilty of brutally killing the victim.

Will you be required to do something like this during your activity as a forensic investigator? Who knows? Maybe yes and maybe know. It all depends if you are lucky enough to take under your responsibility crimes of various kinds. Running a forensic investigation is not easy; special knowledge, experience and attitude are required. Even if identifying the marks of a certain murder case can take from several minutes to months in a ray, this doesn’t change the general idea for people who want to embrace this career and to do it for their entire life. I’ve had the chance to talk with various people who claimed that those who would like to become investigators of this kind are not mentally ok because they basically want to deal with death and bodies and deceased victims and violence and assaults of all kinds. This is not true. A forensic investigator has the honorable duty to help others catch dangerous criminals and make the society that we are all living in a better place.

This is what a forensic investigator does when running any marks identification process.