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Constance Swander began her career as a serologist back when blood samples had to be tested by hand and results took days instead of hours.
After a half-century in laboratories around
the state and advances in forensic science playing an ever-widening role in crime solving, she s preparing to hang up her lab coat on Tuesday.
It has been, she said, a real-life game of Clue, with flesh-and-blood suspects instead of Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet. She s analyzed evidence from crime scenes and has testified more than 300 times as an expert witness on cases ranging from murder and sexual assault to fatal car crashes.