Patterned injury and its evidentiary value
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Pseudofracture: An Acute Peripheral Tissue Trauma Model
Published on: April 18, 2011
Journal of Forensic Sciences
|April 1, 1986
Abstract:
A rape-homicide victim was stomped by her assailant leaving a unique patterned injury on her scalp. Two methods were used to subsequently match the patterned injury on her scalp to the pattern on the shoe of the assailant that was found at the crime scene.

