Author: Edmond Locard

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• Elle Cosimano (1)
  • IN: Nearly Found (2015) Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wherever he steps, whatever he touches, whatever he leaves, even unconsciously, will serve as a silent witness against him. Not only his fingerprints or his footprints, but his hair, the fibers from his clothes, the glass he breaks, the tool mark he leaves, the paint he scratches, the blood or semen he deposits or collects. All of these and more, bear mute witness against him. This is evidence that does not forget. It is not confused by the excitement of the moment. It is not absent because human witnesses are. It is factual evidence. Physical evidence cannot be wrong, it cannot perjure itself, it cannot be wholly absent. Only human failure to find it, study and understand it, can diminish its value.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Max Collins (1)
  • IN: Sin City (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When two objects come into contact, there is a material exchange, from each to the other.
    FROM: Edmond Locard, 1910 Father of Forensic Science, (1910), NULL, France
• Elanor Dymott (1)
  • IN: Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Il est impossible au malfaiteur d'agir, et surtout d'agir avec l'intensité que suppose l'action criminelle sans laisser des traces de son passage. Ces traces sont extremement diverses: il faut avoir présent á l'esprit que, dans chaque affaire, on peut en trouver d'une sorte differénte.
    FROM: Manuel de Technique Policiére, (1923), Book, France
• Claudia Piñeiro (1)
  • IN: Betty Boo (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The microscopic debris that covers our clothing and bodies is the silent witness, sure and faithful, of all our movements and all our encounters.
    FROM: Criminalistic Treatise, (1935), Book, France