A woman was murdered and her body was thrown into a dumpster. Crime scene invest

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A woman was murdered and her body was thrown into a dumpster. Crime scene investigators collected numerous horse hairs from the victim's clothing and the dumpster she was found in. The police investigation yielded that the victim's ex-boyfriend owned farm and had many horses. After finding and arresting the ex-boyfriend, police found the victim's hairs on his coat. The victim's hairs on the suspect's coat are an example oftransfer, while horse hairs from the suspect's horses found in the dumpster are an example oftransfer. secondary, tertiary secondary, direct direct, tertiary direct, secondary

Explanation / Answer

In a crime, transfer from one object to another is inevitable. Direct transfer refers to when the hair has directly been transferred from the victim to an object. Secondary transfer refers to an indirect transfer from the victim to an object. In the above case, the victims hair was found on the suspect's coat which is a direct transfer from the victim to the coat. The horse's hairs from the suspect's horses found in the dumpster is secondary transfer.

Thus, the correct answer is option, D.

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