Tanner, I enjoyed reading your post this week, and we both identified some major issues with evidence used against Wayne Williams. First, a major study was completed revealing the FBI used faulty hair evidence in 96 percent of cases before 1999 (Rowson, 2015). Furthermore, the examination of those scalp hairs was conducted underneath a microscope, which was not considered an exact science; therefore, to explain it in the most simplistic terms its consistency with Williams’s hair was merely the judgment of the examiner (Polk, 2010). To me the analysis of Williams’s hair appeared awfully subjective and possibly biased. Additionally, the scientist who performed the comparative analysis of the hair found on Patrick Baltazar’s shirt may not
