Major Upgrade in Forensic Documentation

[LongBlade]

A camera has been developed that can visually document a 3D model of a crime scene 80% faster than by traditional methods.

This is pretty cool stuff:

Law enforcement personnel can interact with the images from their computers to examine the scene like measuring between any two points. By clicking the point of a murder victim's body and clicking the murder weapon, for example, the tech will automatically measure the distance of the weapon from the body.

The system automatically captures all such measurements to identify critical information like bullet and blood trajectories. It will even automatically produce bloodstain pattern analysis and demarcate the trajectories in the 3D models.

Such technology allows not just law enforcement but jurors to virtually step into a crime scene without actually being at the site.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/05/bloodstains-to-bullet-holes-virtual-crime-scene/

[TheCommandTent]

Very cool!  How long until we start seeing this in crime shows on tv?  :)

[MetalDog]

Wouldn't surprise me if the idea came from a tv show.