https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...nocent-lost/7UrhaGK6aHxm1MfumaOR9L/story.html
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"They sent a
single tooth and 200 strands of hair to a lab in Salt Lake City, Utah, called IsoForensics Inc.
The oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in her tissue could tell researchers where her drinking water came from, and the strontium isotopes could give them clues about the origins of what she ate and bathed in, said a research scientist at the lab, Brett Tipple.
The hair is a historical record of those isotopes, he said, that will show analysts whether and where she moved."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-girl-baby-doe-boston-area-pollen-tests/story?id=33058090
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"we collected pollen from evidence at the scene and sent to a government lab.
We then presented the results of that testing to experts, who offered their opinions that
the pollen was specific to the greater Boston area," Wark said.
So it makes no difference what 2 states have the same trees and plants, whether there is cotton, or wheat or corn, grass, dandelions or etc.. Pollen research is exacting microscopic analyses regarding the types, shape, strains and varieties on a cellular level including environmental contributions. Not based on some simplistic visual level. I could drive around until I die and never see an isotope, so how could I question such kinds of analyses? How can anyone based on living in 2 different states?
I think these investigators are doing a pretty spectacular job.
MOO