A Clean Getaway
Name: Anthony Pascuzzo
Title: A Clean Getaway
By: Dina Fine Maron
A Clean Getaway
My article is informing people that it is possible to not be able to be traceable at a crime scene. How you can do this is easy, criminal investigators use the protein hemoglobin to pick up traces of blood. But first I will explain to you what a hemoglobin does. A hemoglobin is a protein that loves oxygen, its job is to grab oxygen and from the lungs and carry it to the rest of the body. Once its full of oxygen it won’t even bother to grab more oxygen, that the key for getting a clean getaway. New oxy cleaners have lots of oxygen in them which make the hemoglobin’s not bother to grab oxygen from the investigators which will make the blood test negative. This works because investigators you hydrogen peroxide which you use when scrap your knee to stop the bleeding. The investigators tests use the same type of reaction between the blood. They use the peroxide to which then makes the hemoglobin’s grab the oxygen and give them a positive result. Then a group of researchers got curios and make their own crime scene. They used Neutrex and oxy cleanser, then they took regular cleansers and then washed them with water. The researches were right the regular cleansers made the clothes look clean to the naked eye but were traceable. They Neutrex was clean to the naked eye and was still untraceable, therefore using oxy cleaners will make a blood trail untraceable.
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38925/title/FOR_KIDS_A_clean_getaway
January 7th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Do you really think that criminals are going to take the time to clean up a crime scene? What about the other evidence left behind that could identify the criminal? How could we use this research in a positive way?
January 8th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Well if you shot the person your not going to clean up the house, but I’m saying if you kill someone quietly you can scrub the carpet with oxy cleaners. Also you wouldn’t need to scrub that long, you just have to soak it in the blood so the hemoglobins get all of their oxygen. Also if you don’t mess anything up you won’t have to do anything but clean the carpet. Well I think you could do like the scientists did and make a crime scene but find a solution so that you can’t get a clean get away.
January 13th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Anthony you did well on you scientific article.
I don’t think that the criminals could take time to clean up the crime scene. They would just put some oxy clean where the prints or blood would be and vanish. Some other evidence that could be left behind are foot prints or if the person who commited the crime left something that would identify him, like a drivers license’s or something along those lines. We could use this research is a positive way because now we know that if someone would commit a crime evidence would still be available to the police.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:27 am
You did a good job writing this article. I thought it was very interesting. I agree that criminals would probably not have much time to clean up their crime scene, unless the crime was planned ahead of time. I think now that scientists know this information, they could even create a brand of cleaner that didn’t leave blood trails untraceable. There is also plenty of other ways of getting evidence besides blood trails too. So even if a criminal used an oxy cleaner, police could try to find fingerprints, hair, or any other sources of evidence.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Anthony your scientific article was very good. I think it is interesting that criminals could make it much harder for themselves to be caught but don’t. Even though they do not want to stay and clean up, it would be the smart thing to do. If the criminal does clean it up, is there any evidence they would leave behind while cleaning? Im sure while the scene was being clean he would at least loose a hair or something. Very interesting topic. Good job.
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Anthony you did a very good job on your scientific article. I think it is interesting that they have found all of this out about blood and its hemoglobins. I have a question though why did they do this research if the only way it can be used is by a criminal. There are probably more uses for this but it will make law enforcement harder for officers, won’t it?
Also when did they come up with this theory and how? Again I truly enjoyed your article; what a topic.