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Description
Jennifer Pohlheber, forensic scientist with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how her work uncovers the stories behind the evidence.
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A
So
what
we
see
on
television
is
one
person
doing
the
job
of
12
different
people,
I'm
not
going
out
to
crime
scenes
or
interviewing
suspects
and
victims.
The
evidence
is
brought
to
me
so
I'm
working
with
the
evidence
behind
the
scenes
and
I'm
more
or
less
speaking
for
the
evidence
what
the
evidence
means.
What
we'll
do
is
we'll
receive
the
bullets
in
the
cartridge
cases
that
are
located
at
the
crime
scene
or
removed
from
a
victim
potentially,
and
we
will
look
at
that
in
comparison
to
test
fires
from
an
actual
firearm.
A
So
whenever
we
receive
a
firearm,
we
always
assume
that
it's
loaded
from
there.
We
will
check
to
make
sure
that
it's
empty
before
we
ever
go
on
with
any
of
our
analysis
and
then
during
our
examination
process
we
actually
go
through
a
more
thorough.
Like
we
look
at
all
the
different
parts.
Are
there
parts
missing?
Are
the
safeties
working
we'll
check
the
safeties
we'll
make
sure
that
everything's
working
so
ballistics
is
the
travel
it's
following?
The
travel
of
the
bullet
down
and
out
of
the
barrel
through
the
air
into
the
target.
A
So
what
I'm
looking
at
right
now
are
two
training
bullets.
The
one
on
the
left
side
of
the
divider
represents
the
test
fire.
The
one
on
the
right
side
of
the
divider
represents
an
evidence
bullet
that
might
have
been
found
at
a
crime
scene.
So
what
I'm
looking
at
is
the
tool
marks
that
transfer
from
the
inside
of
the
firearm
onto
the
bullet
as
it
travels
down
and
out
of
the
barrel,
and
in
this
instance
I
would
call
this
an
identification
that
that
cartridge
case
was
fired
in
that
particular
firearm
based
on
the
tool
marks.