Crime scene analyst Matthew Steiner answers the internet’s burning questions about forensics and crime scenes. Why don’t we use chalk outlines for dead bodies anymore? How did OJ Simpson get acquitted? How many people got away with murder before DNA evidence? How does height affect blood spatter? Matt answers all these questions and much more!
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“If oj really did it” tf? Why phrase it like that when he did, 100% in fact do it 🤦🏽♂️
Makes me laugh all these people not knowing the reason OJ was acquitted they think oh because he was Black, tainted evidence, the case was lost as soon as the prosecutors put Mark Fuhrman on the stand and he pleaded the 5th case over, I watched the entire case in 1994 and it was pure incompetence on the prosecutions part.
Woud be great if they sorted questions that could easily be answered with google away, "why did they draw chalk around the body", it would take him 5 seconds to find out or just to think about it and he would realize why
Hey youman, do u say cool whip like stewie too?
Scotland Yard was ALREADY using all the techniques Holmes allegedly invented. But the stories were written in the past, so Holmes looked brilliant.
One juror, on the O.J. trial, anonymous, told a reporter "White men have been doing this for years and getting away with it. Payback time." or words to that effect.
Why why why does it have to zoom in and zoom out and zoom in and zoom out?!!! I find it so distracting and i don't understand why video makers do this. So irritating.
Funny, killing Irish mobsters resulted in a federal gun control law, but the presidental reaction to school shootings was to give even more weapons to the public.
Youman
WOW, he knows so much! This was really interesting to watch. 😊
And if you want epic, there’s Skip Palenik. If you know, you know.
Lol everyone seriously still mad about OJ?? HE DEAD, YALL 😂
Fingerprints are nearly infallible pieces of evidence BUT hypothetically if there was a miniscule chance 2 people were to match.. you can't indict someone on 1 piece of evidence. There has to be corroborating, circumstantial evidence to back up the forensics. So unless they miraculously have identical fingerprints AND the means, motive, opportunity to commit the same crime..? Seems unlikely but maybe?? Lol jk it's absolutely absurd. Fingerprints are never identical tho lol just sayin
But OJ didn't do it, case solved, move on yt people.
Two things.
1)A man in florida was arrested and held for several weeks because of a terrorist attack on a train in spain. He had never been to europe in his life, but there was a fingerprint match. So technically fingerprints might not be 100% the same, but can be so close you get arrested for a crime in a country you've never been to.
2) In the oj case, in recent years, two jurors came out anonymously but confirmed actual jurors. These two people both made claims that some people on the jury acquitted oj because everyone was still angry over rodney king.
One of my favorite John Mulaney bits is where he pretends to be an old crime scene detective, and says “I know what we’ll do, we’ll draw chalk around the body where it is, …that way we’ll know where it was”
OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony got off for the same reason – overzealous, overconfident, careless cops and DA’s dying to get a death sentence under their belt.
Excellent presented by a real professional! Thanks for sharing and I now promise not to commit a crime! LOL Best of luck!
interesting, I thought fingerprinting was debunked.
Like OJ getting off had anything to do with reality or evidence. 😂
IF OJ really did it…everyone KNOWS he did it! He literally got away with murder!
"How was O.J. aquitted?"….Rodney King!
I hate that I learned about forensic science after I had finished schooling. I think this guy is super cool lol.
Re: OJ, There was also contaminated blood found, contaminated with a preservative that labs use that gave enough doubt that either he was being set up or the prosecution screwed up.
The jury didn’t care about evidence, it was about race to them.
"If" OJ did it…
Did OJ ever find the real killers?
Okay, so solve the JFK assassination smart guy!
Trick Question: It’s been solved for 60 years. Oswald did it, alone…
OJ didn’t get away with it. He died of guilt cancer.
Why does One Direction help search for stuff? Aren't they busy taking the world by storm?
" THE BODY WINDS UP BEING PICKLED"
Heads up…the word "human" starts with a H not a Y.
We all know why he was acquitted, cmon now
You know its an expert when he emphasizes inductive reasoning when it comes to Sherlock Holmes instead of the commonly used inaccurate deduction.
There is no DNA evidence that he is a forensics expert.
I really wish people would stop making YT videos about this murdering scumbag. I hate even seeing his name. He brutally murdered 2 people and got away with it.
The thumbnail, its because darkness was so mad about Rodney King that "dey wuz finna sho da LAPD wussup!!!"
He got Holmes completely wrong. Holmes staple was using ABDUCTIVE REASONING.
OJ was aquitted because jurors can choose to ignore the evidence and even the law in making their decision. It's called jury nullification. It's a legal concept that exists outside the law and can get you into a lot of trouble if you don't carry it out in a lawful way.
Basically, during jury selection when the judge asks you if there's any reason why you can't apply the law as directed, if you say NO and then nullify (make a decision on your own no matter what the evidence or law says), you've perjured yourself. If you say yes (truthfully) and you tell the judge you believe in jury nullification, you'll probably frustrate the judge and the lawyers and they'll lock you off the jury, but they won't be able to accuse you of perjury.
CGP Grey has a great video about it.
id watch this guy play l.a noire
Yumen
12:29 FALSE ❌
Evidence can be misread/misinterpreted, miscommunicated in court.
It can be planted, misplaced, mishandled… There are ways evidence can be less than honest
It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove in court
Because of wokeness, he walked.
The OJ snipped of the video won’t load for me lol. Everything else loads, not that snipped. Conspiracy?
These questions are terrible… It seems like all of them are asked with the answer in mind. Some of the questions seem like they could not be asked unless the answer was already known. Thankfully the answers were great.
Come on Matt… you know the career liars lost that case for the state, what I found hilarious at the time was watching Vannatter and Fuhrman convinced that it would be business as usual and everyone would just gobble up the straight faced lies…overconfidence is what happens when you are a paid liar for too long
Regarding the fingerprinting issue, there is countless incidents where the wrong person was identified due to the computer system recognizing patterns that were similar, but were ultimately found to not match with the prints collected.
In regards to the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels, A C Doyle was fooled by the Cottingley fairies photo.
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