Medicolegal Examinations on Hair, Semen, Urine and Their Stains

, Shin Mong Kang

Original Article

Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1987;11(2):80-84.

The Institute of Legal Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

It is one of the important items for crime investigation and for trial to examine the various evidences including human tissue, secretion, excretion, etc. in the medicolegal fields. Among them hair has been used as first choice of evidence, when no available fingerprint or bloodstain is found at the scene. Also identification & vertification of semen or its stain offers diagnostic clue for sexual offence or sexual intercourse. So all the men, who participate in the scene investigation or postmortem examination, have to be well acquainted with proper cellection, conservation, transportation and inter. pretation of evidential specimens from the scene, the victim and the suspect. At this viewpoint, the author summarized the methods of collection and examination of hair, semen, urine and their stains for the doctors, who perform medicolegal inquest or autopsy.