02-07-2013, 01:36 PM
Martin White Wrote:Now in the Pitzer case, they paraffin tested the corpse. If the test is known to have no evidentiary value by investigators, why would they take paraffin casts of the hands of a dead man?
Is there any other "suicide" by gun case where the corpse was paraffin tested?
Martin,
To answer your first question: We should differentiate between evidentiary value (admissibility in a court proceeding) and investigative value (significance as a clue pointing to the solution of an unsolved mystery/crime).
As to the second: My guess -- and it's only that -- is yes. Especially those cases in which there is good reason to suspect foul play.