Forensic Mark Examination of Vehicle Keys
DOI : 10.32565/aarms.2015.3.6
Date : 2015
Journal title : AARMS
Journal volume : 14
Journal issue number : 3
Pages : 319-330
Document type : Folyóiratcikk
Subject : Forensic tool mark examination, key duplication, copy traces, individual characteristic of tool marks
Abstract :
The inspection of a key by an expert mark examiner covers evaluation of technological traces, presumption of origin, falsification related mark examinations,
search marks of duplicator and sampler equipment, as well as identification, recognition of shape characteristics and therefore decoding. The author on the basis
of his several decades of experience demonstrates that a vehicle key belonging to a
car is the most important safeguarding gadget, what kind of marks it may bear, and
how it could be read in the aspect of forensic tool mark examination.