Investigation 13 “Who Wrote the Ransom Note?”
Did The Sticky Bandit Make an Inky Mistake?
Introduction: Early Wednesday morning at approximately 6:19 a.m. the widowed Mrs. Regina Butterworth realized when she went to make some syrup that her infamous syrup recipe had been stolen from her secret cookie jar vault. Mrs. Butterworth immediately called the police and upon their arrival they discovered a ransom note left by the alleged sticky bandit. The note was sent to the Tempe CSI Crime Lab for further analysis. Blaine Benson, head of the Tempe Crime Lab, has reported that paper chromatography will be used to identify the pen the bandit used. Pens from local syrup competitors were collected as evidence to compare to the ink used in the note. Paper chromatography is a common practice used to separate the colored components in the ink. The Rf value or the retention factor is the ratio of the distance traveled by the substance over the distance traveled by the solvent. This value will give the forensic investigators a quantitative value to compare the ink samples retrieved from the competitors to.
Materials: The materials used include: jars with lids to ensure a closed environment for the experiment, Chromatography paper to effectively get more accurate results and a ruler to measure the retention …show more content…
Marty Maple early Friday morning. The Tempe police department directly links this arrest to the Tempe Crime Lab and their amazing forensic lab work. “Paper chromatography played an instrumental role in the arrest of the ‘sticky bandit’ case” stated Phoenix Police Chief Mr. Doolittle in a press conference earlier today. This approach worked very well and could be used in the field of Forensics to aid police in the arrest of future criminals. As for this case the infamous syrup recipe was safely returned to Mrs. Butterworth who promises she will not let this sticky incident get in the way of her delicious
Did The Sticky Bandit Make an Inky Mistake?
Introduction: Early Wednesday morning at approximately 6:19 a.m. the widowed Mrs. Regina Butterworth realized when she went to make some syrup that her infamous syrup recipe had been stolen from her secret cookie jar vault. Mrs. Butterworth immediately called the police and upon their arrival they discovered a ransom note left by the alleged sticky bandit. The note was sent to the Tempe CSI Crime Lab for further analysis. Blaine Benson, head of the Tempe Crime Lab, has reported that paper chromatography will be used to identify the pen the bandit used. Pens from local syrup competitors were collected as evidence to compare to the ink used in the note. Paper chromatography is a common practice used to separate the colored components in the ink. The Rf value or the retention factor is the ratio of the distance traveled by the substance over the distance traveled by the solvent. This value will give the forensic investigators a quantitative value to compare the ink samples retrieved from the competitors to.
Materials: The materials used include: jars with lids to ensure a closed environment for the experiment, Chromatography paper to effectively get more accurate results and a ruler to measure the retention …show more content…
Marty Maple early Friday morning. The Tempe police department directly links this arrest to the Tempe Crime Lab and their amazing forensic lab work. “Paper chromatography played an instrumental role in the arrest of the ‘sticky bandit’ case” stated Phoenix Police Chief Mr. Doolittle in a press conference earlier today. This approach worked very well and could be used in the field of Forensics to aid police in the arrest of future criminals. As for this case the infamous syrup recipe was safely returned to Mrs. Butterworth who promises she will not let this sticky incident get in the way of her delicious