Investigators and criminologists apply the principle ‘every contact leaves a trace’ to crack crimes while attempting to understand their patterns.
Coined by French criminologist Edmond Locard, the rule holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence.
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