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Objects of the forensic investigations vary from illegally buried weapons and explosives, landmines and improvised explosive devices, drugs and weapons caches to clandestine graves of murder victims and mass genocide graves, environmental crime (illegal dumps, a spill of pollutants, food sophistication, etc.). Various techniques are available for forensic crime search teams. These techniques allow detecting a hidden object successfully. Near-surface geophysical search methods have been dominated by ground-penetrating radar but recently other techniques, such as electrical resistivity, magnetometric, time domain reflection have become more common. This chapter discusses some case history related to various research studies applied to crime forensic science. Will be examined the application of TDR to evidence food sophistication, the application of ERT to evidence the pollution related to dumps and hydrocarbons, the application of GPR, ERT and magnetic for the hidden bodies, clandestine graves and the search of hidden arms.

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Leucci, G. (2020). Site Application: Forensic Crime Cases. In: Advances in Geophysical Methods Applied to Forensic Investigations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46242-0_6

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