Details are given from a murder investigation in which the fluorescence of tyre prints was discovered. The prints enabled the tyres and the vehicle in which the body was carried to be identified and fluorescence spectroscopy demonstrated a correlation between the fluorescence of one of the tyres and the corresponding print. Circumstances favouring the formation of fluorescent prints and the importance of the technique for forensic science are discussed.
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Loughran, J., Lloyd, J. & Watson, T. Murder involving discovery and first application of fluorescence of tyre prints. Nature 250, 762–764 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250762a0
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