LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Law enforcement investigators from across Nevada rely on one Las Vegas Valley forensic lab to analyze critical crime scene evidence: footprints and tire tracks.

The Henderson Forensic Laboratory is the only facility in the state with critical technology to analyze footprints and tire prints in their latent processing room.

The Henderson Police Department utilizes the lab, but law enforcement agencies from across the state send about 30 cases a year to the team for footprint and tire track analysis.

“[Suspects] have to enter and exit a crime scene either by foot or vehicle or both. They’re bound to leave tracks and trails. With enough information and detail in that impression that’s left behind, we can sometimes conclusively identify it to one single source,” sai

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