The Case of the Stolen Bike | Weird But True! | S1 E16 | Full Episode | @natgeokids

hey guys charlie here lots going on today we got a classic 345 on our hands petty theft occurred this morning suspects few motive uncertain donut uh chocolate don't worry about it because we got our investigators on the scene found a thumb print throw it in with the rest of them it's time for weird but true try sand shot [Music] here [Music] dark Mysteries weird facts one woman hopes to unravel them all it was a chilly day too chilly the kind of chill that would make a popsicle sugar when that very unchill man barged into my office detective Kirby that's the name who's asking Kirby it's Charlie what seems to be the problem Charles curbs it's horrible I just gotten back from a bike ride with my friend Patrick I'm going to go get some ice cream cool I'm going to circle the block all right I ran inside for 1 minute and by the time I came back my bike was gone no it was stolen you got to help me out who's this Patrick kit one of Charlie's goons why ice cream it's like 10 Dees outside like a broken calculator this story just didn't add up and that's when I realized Charles I don't know anything about solving crime really me neither huh I guess that's what we're doing today un raffling the world [Music] of science hey guys guys we're just waiting for package perfect sign here thanks Bob we got a great mail man so forensic science forensic science all right Real Talk guys my bike was stolen and I have absolutely no idea what happened to it bummer so we ordered this book to help us learn how crimes like this are handled let's check it out so let's say your favorite plant is stolen it's gone the first thing you do is call the police what's up my favorite plant was stolen we'll be there in 2 seconds the first person to arrive at the crime scene is a police officer the officer establishes a border and makes sure the area is preserved for evidence the next person on location is a CSI AKA crime scene investigator they're the ones that carefully find and collect evidence that can be analyzed for forensic Clues an arch joke a small wedge of cheese a large wedge of cheese anything that might help solve the case once they finish examining the scene they take their findings to our third expert the forensic scientist they're basically smart scientists that use their scientific knowledge to solve crimes such as analyzing DNA or testing fingerprints he did it what Co cool so forensic scientists are the ones that are actually working with the evidence to find Clues and they can find clues in the weirdest ways check it out these are all true stories what a life being a forensic scientist a it's crazy crazy I tell you about the guys we are NAB last week who the Fried Chicken burglar so this guy he's robbing our house right oh gets hungry eat some fried chicken sip some OJ and books it this guy's hand was so greasy greasy from the chicken he left fingerprints all over the bottle of OJ so we ideed this guy based off his greasy Fried Chicken fingerprints crazy did I tell you about the guy we locked up on Tuesday the sticky fingered selfie snatcher so this guy he steals a lady's phone right starts taking selfies with it like a model or something our boys hack into the phone's cloud storage and get one of these selfies posted it around the area excuse me and boom the guy turned in no his selfies helped us catch him I tell you about the group we naed on Friday though the litterbug Bandit so these kids right they're stealing some snacks from a gas station like some hot shot felons the scene in a getaway car munching on the snacks and tossing the rappers out the window so I got one of our police dos followed the trail of wi and found the crooks so these guys the L helped us catch him it's a crazy job crazy more coffee well good thanks all right so we got a crime scene right now who do we need to call we need a crime scene investigator exactly and guys we found the perfect lady to call Rebecca Hooks she's a crime scene investigator with the Illinois State Police Department giving her a call right now crime scene Services my bike just got stolen that's terrible can you help us out I'll be there in 5 seconds she's here I'll get it Sergeant Rebecca Hooks she's an expert on evidence Gathering and processing Rebecca's favorite weird but true fact is that fingerprints can last up to 40 years on paper hey Rebecca how's it going Hi how are you Charlie I'm really glad you're here cuz this is what you do right this what I do every day awesome so where do we start so we got a camera kit awesome crie scene tape very cool okay these are gel lifts we're going to use these to collect any Footwear we might find fingerprint kit and a fancy Footwear light ready to go we're ready all right this is where it all happened we start biking up here I went inside that door came out with some ice cream I left my bike right here and when we came out gone okay stop right there I'm going to have you back up cuz you're walking in the crime scene and we're going to put up some crime scene tape to prevent any further contamination let's do it all right guys First Step you got to rope off the crime scene we got to make it a little bigger than the spot where it just happened cuz you never know where you're going to find evidence got to make sure that nobody comes in and contaminates your [Music] area okay next step we're going inside to look for evidence but we're going to want to make sure that we don't contaminate the scene we want to wear gloves and we want to wear booties we don't want to leave extra Footprints and we don't want to leave extra fingerprints okay guys ready to go you're a little overdressed Charlie what are you talking about this is contamination management right here here nothing on me is getting in that scene it's just a bike take the suit off suit can come off better much better what's next okay we're going to walk through the crime scene we're going to take notes about what we see and we're going to look and see if there's anything that was left behind that does not belong here well I'm going to give Kirby the clipboard and she can start documenting any observation that she sees while Kirby is recording some observations we're going to take [Music] pictures check it out [Music] guys I found something sweet oh Charlie stop remember what we said about contamination yeah we got to think about the path that the suspect took to whatever evidence she found would have taken the path of least resistance straight towards the evidence so when we go in we're going to want to stay on the outside edge of the sidewalk follow me so was walking around the perimeter of the crime and I Came Upon This can I think it's evidence we're going to get some photographs of it [Music] [Applause] excellent got it we're going to fingerprint the can now we're going to use plain black fingerprint powder we're just gently going to dust it and we're starting to see some fingerprints develop it just appeared favorite true fingerprints are made out of three things sweat oil and protein what's up next let's look for some Footwear Footwear that CSI talk Footprints we're going to use this Footwear light to look for some footprints on the [Music] sidewalk I think I see something right over here and we're going to use a gel lift to collect the Footwear so what is a gel lift and what does it do the gel lift is a rectangular piece of material that is really sticky and we're going to peel off this plastic cover that's on it this will help us collect the footprint exactly awesome so we're going to lay the gel lift down over the footprint and smooth it out and we're going to slowly peel it back and see if we have a footwear print ooh ni very nice you can see our foot print totally so we're going to take this footware print and we're going to seal it in a bag and we're going to take it to the crime lab but you guys need to start thinking about suspects and why someone would possibly steal your bike what their motive is and when you think about that we'll see if they have an alibi okay suspect suspect do you have any enemies do you owe anyone money I owe Winnie like $5 but I don't think you can ride a bike I think we have to think about this a bit more I think you're right all right guys we're going to take a quick break but when we get back we're going to be ready to go over some suspects we'll see you soon weird but true like fingerprints it's virtually impossible for two people to have the same exact [Music] handwriting hey guys welcome back we've been doing some thinking and we have two major suspects who might have stolen my bike suspect number one our sister Casey Casey was at the house while I made myself an ice cream cone she had just come from outside with the packages that puts her near the scene of the crime suspect number two Charlie's friend Patrick the bike ride was Patrick's idea when we stopped at our house for ice cream he said he'd do a loop around the block when I got back Patrick was gone and so is my butt no we talked to each of the suspects to see if they confess I talked to Casey hey Case did you take my bike no okay thanks sorry and I talked to Patrick where's Charlie's bike I don't know don't you play dumb with me I'm not lying what are you hiding yeah he's not talking ah nuts but that's exactly what a thief would do Charles I guess you're right C we got to let the evidence do the talk in here so what did Rebecca take from the crime scene we got a fingerprint and a footprint cool cool let's look into fingerprints a bit more closely our fingerprints formed 3 months before we're even born and so many tiny factors affect fingerprint formation like oxygen levels blood pressure and even the baby's nutrition levels according to scientists over the entire course of human existence there's virtually no chance that two hum have ever had the same fingerprint pattern ever check out your hands you've got different prints on all your fingers weird but true even identical twins don't have the same prints what makes them so unique are those patterns of Swirls and ridges there are three different kinds that everybody has on their fingers even you let's check them out the first type of fingerprint is the loop they're fingerprints that recurve back on themselves kind of like this 65% of all fingerprints are Loops the next fingerprint we have is the Whirl whirls are kind of like tiny little whirl pools 30% of all fingerprints are whirls the final fingerprint type is the arch arches are kind of like tiny little Hills and they're super rare only 5% of all fingerprints are arches so there you go those are your three different kinds of fingerprints what do you have Curb I've got two whirls a loop and two more whirls what about you Charles I've got a loop a whirl another loop another whirl and another loop so it's common knowledge that everyone has unique fingerprints but did you know that our palms toes and feet are also unique too weird cool cool so fingerprints are one of the things that forensic scientists can use to solve crimes but they're not the only thing remember forensic scientists are scientists that use their knowledge to solve crimes what if they're really knowledgeable about teeth or bugs all these people can still be forensic scientists here are some examples forensic Superstar number one Dr Kemp dentist in 1954 a man robbed a grocery store and paused for a bite of cheese on the way out the police asked the primary suspect to bite into a piece of cheese for comparison bite this cheese okay they took both cheeses to Dr Kemp who measured the bites and determined that both of these cheeses were bit by the same person who are under arrest proving the suspect was at the scene of the crime forensic Superstar number two Lynn kimsey entomologist in 2004 Vincent Brothers was accused of a serious crime in California but he claimed he never left the state of Ohio I haven't even heard of California crime scene investigators didn't believe him so they took the filter and radiator from his car to Lynn kimy stuck in the radiator and filter she found a grasshopper a paper wasp and two bugs and determined that these bugs are from the West they're not from Ohio proving that Vincent was lying so he was convicted forensic Superstar number three Patricia Wiltshire botanist police were having a tough time tying a suspect to a crime scene so they called on Patricia for help can you help us out sure after looking extremely close at every detail of the evidence she determined that the pollen located on the suspect shoe only comes from a special plant located at the scene of the crime proving he was there these people are incredible it's like anything can be a clue I wonder how Rebecca's doing with the clues she got from our crime scene it's got to be her Rebecca hey Charlie we're starting to process your evidence no way you're going to want to come see this oh my gosh we'll be there in like 3 minutes okay see you soon bye hi our evidence is ready we got to go to the lab okay guys we're going to go meet Rebecca at the forensics lab but we'll see you there after the break sounds good awesome we'll see you soon weird but true children's fingerprints disappear from surfaces faster than adults [Music] do hey guys welcome back we just got here we're at the Illinois State Police Forensic Science Center Rebecca asked us here cuz she said she's ready to process our evidence let's go find her hey Rebecca hey guys come on in I'm going to introduce you to Mike he is our lat and fingerprint examiner and he's going to be taking a look at the can for us excellent hey guys nice to meet you Mike CS he's an expert at examining evidence for signs of prints from feet and hands his favorite weird but true fact is the first palm print identification was made in 1917 at the scene of a stage coach robbery in Nevada we're sorry to hear about your bike we'll do what we can to help but first let's get some lab coats on okay so what do we have looks like we've got a can and it looks like someone powdered it for us already we big old fingerprint there there's a couple extra things that we can do to the print to help us visualize a little bit better that's awesome yeah so the first thing we're going to do is called cyano acrylate fuming cyano acrylate fuming got it got it that's just a fancy word for super glue actually so what does this super glue do to the fingerprint when it heats up cyano acrylate releases a gas that aderes to the fingerprint residue W so it helps us see it better it will what we do to start the process is we're going to put it into the tank Kirby if you want to put about 10 drops into the plate for me yep one two good put it onto the hot plate so we're going to put it on about 10 15 minutes put the lid on and we'll wait and see what results we get weird but true forensic scientists like Mike can find prints on things that have been underwater now in the right light we'll be able to see it just a little bit better oh yeah you know I see something for sure I totally see there's definitely some stuff in there I think it's a whirl I'm calling a whirl too we got a whirl thumb print I would agree the person who stole my bike has a whirl thumb print so what do we do with this fingerprints if we had a suspect we can compare it to them otherwise we can take the information and put it into a database and see if that person had committed any previous crimes cool and see if they pop up in the database all right what's next all we have to do is turn the lights off so we can see it under there got oo let's see what we have that's great looks like we got two and it's super detailed I can't believe we're looking at the actual fingerprint from the person who stole my bike okay I think we got it so we should take this back home and compare it with our suspects right that's right we also took a footprint away from the scene you should be talking to Bill and Rebecca and they're in the Next Room all right Mike thanks so much for helping us out take this fingerprint see you later bill deth forensic Footwear examiner he specializes in finding unique clues in footprints that can be used to help solve crimes his favorite weird but true fact is positive identification of a suspect shoeprint can be made with as little as one random characteristic where do we start well we'll start with the gel lift the first thing we're going to do is we're going to image this and we always want to make sure we shoot these with a scale in the image and in order for you to compare this to an actual shoe you have to make sure that it's the same size as the shoe was do you see anything initially it looks like it marked very well so right off the bat you might be able to tell brand and you might be able to tell size that's awesome wow the next step is we're going to grab our image I think we've got it awesome okay so what we've got on the screen is the original image and what I've done is I've adjusted the contrast a little bit this is the kind of clean version of that gel site that's perfect hey guys what'd you find out oh we got an awesome footprint from Bill and some photos of fingerprints now you've got some suspects so you're going to take your fingerprint and your footprint home and you're going to compare those to your suspects perfect time to crack the case I guess I think so thank you guys so much for your help really appreciate it good luck see you L weird but true perspiration level is one of the reactions measured in a lie detector test so we've been going over our evidence and we just found the weirdest thing so we got a piece of mail from both our suspects Casey and Patrick to collect their thumb prints so we can compare them with the print we got from the can at the crime scene and guys we got a match but here's the thing we found three sets of prints one on Casey's piece of mail on Arch another a little WHL on Patrick's piece of mail and a third that we found on B their pieces of mail a big world and that's the one that matches the print on the can from the crank see but here's the thing whose print could this be oh my gosh what I figured it out who did it Bob Bob or mailman yeah think about it whose print would be on both pieces of mail the mailman's Bob's when you got your ice cream you ran into Casey carrying boxes of craft supplies that Bob had just delivered I I don't know K I don't really see the connection here like where does my bike fit into it what about that footprint and then where did Patrick go all right check this out Bob needs to deliver packages of craft supplies to our front door but your bike is in the way he moves it to make room for his delivery and leaves his can of soda behind along with his Footprints Patrick comes back from his Loop sees that your bike isn't there so he suspects you left to go find him and he heads back out so my bike wasn't stolen Bob just moved it yep we found it Joe was so worried about you another case Sol I thought I lost you forever Charles it's just a bike this is amazing we learned so much today about solving crimes what else did we learn today there are so many weird but true things every one of your fingers has a different print pattern and no two humans have ever had matching fingerprints palms of hands feet and Toes also have unique print patterns combining superglue heat and humidity in a fish tank for 15 minutes can make a print stand out on an object K can you help me unload these craft supplies for sure there's so much stuff in here it's gone another crime don't worry I know exactly what to do this is a job for detective Kirby it was a dark and stormy night in a city filled with Secrets all right guys it looks like we got another project on our hands the room was crafty too crafty but thanks so much for stopping by time crawled by like a m sloth in the lasses come back again when we discover more things that are weird but true too true we'll see you [Music] soon

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Length: 22min 13sec (1333 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 01 2023