Shot track
Bullet marks include the mechanical damage and smoke marks from indirect or direct shots. They can be determined and secured on people as well as on things.
They can mainly be found on the hit object and on components of the ammunition such as cartridges , projectiles , shotgun ammunition , ammunition - there, individual traces of the original weapon and its system features can be identified.
They arise primarily through applied shots (absolute proximity) or close shots (relative proximity) to the object and leave deposits of their metallic composition there. Investigations into the characteristics are carried out by coroners, forensic experts, and criminalists.
literature
- Robin M. Coupland, Markus A. Rothschild, Michael J. Thali: Wound ballistics. Basics and Applications. Edited by Beat P. Kneubuehl . 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Springer Medicine, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-79008-2 .
- Burkhard Madea: Practice forensic medicine. Assessment, reconstruction, assessment. 2nd updated edition. Springer Medicine, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-33719-5 , p. 134 ff.
- Christoph Speck: Automated evaluation of forensic traces on cartridge cases (= Institute for Measurement and Control Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (TH). Series 014). Universitätsverlag, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-86644-365-5 (At the same time: Karlsruhe, Universität, Dissertation, 2009).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Jakob: The shot on the soap block. In: UniPress. 133/2007, pp. 21–23 (report on ballistic tests by Beat Kneubuehl) (online PDF, viewed on August 25, 2012; 353 kB) ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )