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CASE
OF THE
TAMPERED
TESTAMENT
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TECHNIQUES |
SET
UP FOR A PARTICULAR CASE * |
| Samples
to be tested for poisons and drugs
- blood
from J. Rochester
- icing
from birthday cake
- tube
of decorator icing from Millers' room
- liquids
from Millers' room
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Gas
chromatography - mass spectrometry (drugs) |
- blood:
1 mg/mL methyl benzoate ("strychnine")
- icing
from cake: 2 drops methyl benzoate mixed into 7 g icing
- icing
from tube: no added methyl benzoate
- methyl
benzoate in bottle from Millers' room
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| Carpet
samples to be tested for accelerants
- from
Rochesters' room
- from
Millers' room
- from
D. Forsythe's room
- liquids
from Rochesters' room
- liquids
from Millers' room
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Gas
chromatography |
- Rochesters:
paint thinner added to burnt carpet
- Millers:
no added accelerant to carpet
- D.
Forsythe: no added accelerant to carpet
- bottles
of ethanol, lighter fluid, and paint thinner from Rochesters'
room
- paint
thinner in bottle from Millers' room
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| Ribbons
- from
alleged Will
- from
J. Shelby
- from
M. Rochester
- from
around stuffed ostrich's neck
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UV-Visible
reflectance spectrophotometry (color)
Raman
spectrophotometry (composition) |
- The
ribbon found on the Will and from Margaret Rochester's room are
the same.
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| Ink
Samples from Pens
- J.
Rochester's Will
- from
D. Forsythe and J. Rochester
- from
B. Miller
- from
G. Rochester
- from
M. Rochester
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UV-Visible
spectrophotometry (color)
Liquid
chromatography (components) |
- Will:
Bic Roller; altered with Pentel Superball
- D.
Forsythe & J. Rochester: Bic Roller
- B.
Miller : Sanford Saga
- G.
Rochester : Pilot BetterGrip
- M.
Rochester : Pentel Superball
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| Samples
to be tested for inorganic poison
- J.
Rochester's hair
- Powder
found in safe
- Powder
found in D. Forsythe's room
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Inorganic
qualitative analysis |
- Hair
sample: no added lead
- Powder
(safe): lead nitrate
- Powder
(room): lead nitrate
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* ONE POSSIBLE SCENARIO: Margaret Rochester found Julia Rochester's original
Will and altered it to her advantage. She also decided to kill Deborah Forsythe,
leaving husband George Rochester as Executor, by setting fire to Forsythe's
room the night after the murder of Julia Rochester. Beatrice Miller found
the altered Will and, discovering that she was to receive a substantial sum
of money and desperate for money, poisoned Julia's piece of birthday cake.