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~ n all consistent with and could have originated from the dog present at the home of Williams. It was the unanimous opinion of the technical specialists present, who examined and compared the above fibrous materials, that each of the abovementioned fiber and hair! associations, when taken individually, would be significant. However, the combinations of the above four types of fibrous materials found on many of the victims lend an extremely high degree of certainty that many of the victims were in contact with items in the residence of Wayne Bertram Williams. It is recommended by several of the technical specialists that it would be desirable to conduct additional confirmatory scientific tests on the materials examined in order to further reinforce the findings. It has been the experience of this examiner that identifications and direct comparisons of synthetic textile fibers through microscopical techniques are very discriminating. It is the routine practice of the FBI Laboratory that cone firmatory tests be performed to verify the conclusions determined through microscopical techniques. the type and nature of these confirmatory tests depend on a number of considerations which would include the nature of the item being examined and the amount of fibrous material available for analysis. It should be noted that in every case in the experience of this examiner that an association was made utilizing microscopical techniques, the additional tests performed did, in fact, confirm the original association. "-98  ? W 5