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While identifying the culprit, establishing their connection to the crime is paramount. Since legal systems require evidence for conviction, law enforcement increasingly relies on advancing scientific methods to meet this need. For example, in this case, after applying conventional techniques like DNA analysis and fingerprinting, a new technique, such as microbial forensics or fingerprints, can be applied. Trace evidence can be in the form of microbial fingerprints, and this evidence can play an important role in solving the crime. Microbial communities are dense and active in living and non-living things and in the environment. The classification and roles of these bacterial populations could be used as markers. The distinction between forensic samples is achievable because there is a diversity of microbial communities found in the human body from one location to another, and even in identical twins. 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