BLUESTAR® FORENSIC Performances

Performances on old blood

BLUESTAR® FORENSIC has proved its detecting power on very old blood. So far, the oldest blood discovered by BLUESTAR® FORENSIC was that of two confederate soldiers that were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. This decisive battle of the American Civil War was fought in July 1863, more than 145 years before the reagent was applied !

Not only BLUESTAR® FORENSIC can help investigators to solve crimes weeks or months after it was perpetrated, it can also take us back to the past decades or even centuries and give us additional clues to historical events.

Read the story of this discovery as told by the Emmitsburg Area Historical Society.

Read this I.A.B.P.A. News article: "Bloodstains of Gettysburg: The Use of Chemiluminescent Blood Reagents to Visualize Bloodstains of Historical Significance." by Detective Lieutenant Nicholas Paonessa, Supervisor of the Forensic Identification/Crime Scene Unit, Niagara Falls Police Department, NY, USA.

More pictures on the Shriver House's website.

	Shriver House : Location documented as having been the place where two confederate snipers were killed
	Same area sprayed with BLUESTAR
	Another view of the attic...
	...where more blood was found.

Photos courtesy of Det. Lt. Nicholas A. Paonessa
Niagara Falls Police Department-Crime Scene Unit