• logicbomb@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’d expect that with the zillions of crime scene photographs taken, the need to use chalk to outline the body is lessened, and simultaneously, with more advanced forensic techniques, the danger that chalk would contaminate evidence is increased.

    In modern crime dramas, I don’t recall seeing chalk outlines around bodies, but around other evidence like bullet casings, presumably because they might roll somewhere. If that’s true, then they’d still bring chalk along.