Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-10390252-20180113180516/@comment-4010415-20180115053718

I remember that CSI episode. The solution was that the guy was born a human chimera. Basically, he had two sets of DNA, and which set the CSI's got depended on what kind of sample they took. I think they found different DNA in his spit than in his blood or something? It's been so many years since I've seen that episode, I'm foggy on the details. I recall, though, that Grissom figured it out when taking photos of the suspect revealed that he had Blaschko's lines, and one of the many causes of that is chimerism.

It's apparently a real thing, though probably played up with a little bit of Hollywood fantasy. But CSI had a tendency to base episodes around real things, real cases, and plausible explanations for urban legends.