Question

A man is accused of a brutal beating of a young woman. He claims that he never struggled with her, despite several eyewitnesses seeing him with the woman. Several hairs from the woman's head are found at the crime scene. The hairs are analyzed by a hair expert. The hair expert explains that he is certain that the hairs have been pulled from the victim's head. How do we know that the hairs have been pulled?
A) A small medullary index is present.
B) Chevron scale patterns were noted.
C) The follicular tags are stretched.
D) The medulla patterns are elongated.

Answer 1

Answer:

C) The follicular tags are stretched.

Explanation:

Follicular tags are the parts of the follicule root that are still attached to the end of the hair, if they are stretched that means that the follicule suffered from distress from being pulled from the follicule and that the force with which was being pulled caused a rupture in the hair follicule that made the follicular tags to stretch and eventually separate the hair from the head.