this may not seem like much but it's one of the most incredible tools at our disposal here in forensics this is Pharaoh phoh is a 3D scanner that uses a class one laser to capture about a million data points per second and supremely detailed photographs these data points create accurate measurements up to 1,82 Ft for crime scenes this is huge phoh combines all these photos and data points to create a 3D model with exact measurements essentially recreating a crime scene you can revisit and walk through this allows detectives attorneys and even juries to get a fully immersive experience of the crime scene and all the evidence exactly as it was found questions like could someone standing in this doorway have witnessed the crime can now be answered with ease before Pharaoh forensic science Specialists had to measure everything by hand and I mean everything documenting a crime scene requires extremely detailed measurements take this knife for example a forensic science specialist would have to measure the length and the width of the knife as well as its distance from every edge of the table and then the table would need to be measured as well as its distance from an immovable structure like a wall next the measurements were mapped out on the graph paper this process would need to be done for every single piece of evidence within the crime scene thankfully now a pharaoh crime scene documentation is more accurate and takes a fraction of the time so we can focus on the next crime scene while investigators work on closing the case