§Transient Evidence—temporary; easily changed or lost; usually observed by the first officer at the scene
§Pattern Evidence—produced by direct contact between a person and an object or between two objects
§Conditional Evidence—produced by a specific event or action; important in crime scene reconstruction and in determining the set of circumstances or sequence within
a particular event
§Transfer Evidence—produced by contact between person(s) or object(s), or between person(s) and person(s)
§Associative Evidence—items that may associate a victim or suspect with a scene or each other; ie, personal
belongings
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•—Lee and Labriola in Famous Cases,
2001