Today we travel to a future where forensic science gets so sensitive, just touching something could mean becoming suspect number one. 

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Guests:

• Raychelle Burks — professor of chemistry at St. Edward’s University
• Kelley Kulick — deputy public defender at the Santa Clara Public Defender’s Office
• Mitra Sharafi — professor of law at University of Wisconsin Law School
• Mary Graw Leary — professor of law at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law

Further Reading:

• Raychelle Burks on Poisons, Medicine, and Communicating Science
• Forensic Nightmare: The Perils of Touch DNA
• Could Secondary DNA Transfer Falsely Place Someone at the Scene of a Crime? 
• Framed for Murder By His Own DNA
• Forensics gone wrong: When DNA snares the innocent
• Touch DNA and Chemical Analysis of Skin Trace Evidence: Protecting Privacy While Advancing Investigations
• The origin of unknown source DNA from touched objects
• DNA fingerprints from fingerprints
• Cocaine Contaminates Majority of U.S. Currency
• The ‘CSI Effect’: Does It Really Exist?
• The CSI effect on cold case investigations
• Imprint of the Raj by Chandak Sengoopta
• The Hounds of Empire: Forensic Dog Tracking in Britain and its Colonies, 1888-1953
• Global Forensic Cultures: Making Fact and Justice in the Modern Era
• The Imperial Serologist and Punitive Self-Harm: Bloodstains and Legal Pluralism in British India
• The Supreme Digital Divide

Actors:

• Evan Johnson as Mr. Morton
• Brent Rose as Dr. Karpou
• Helen Rosner as Dr. Duncan Dougal
• Tamara Krinsky as Dr. Susan Simmons