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= Peter McDonald (forensic tire tread expert) = Peter McDonald (1930-2013) was a tire tread designer and a forensic tire tread expert.

He earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from Miami University in 1953. For 28 years McDonald was director of tire design at Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, starting in 1957.

The first criminal investigation that McDonald was officially involved in occurred in 1976, when Monterey, California, police sent a photo of a tire print obtained at a murder crime scene to Firestone in Akron. The photo was passed on to McDonald, in the hopes the tire could be identified. He was able to identify that the prints were from a Parnelli Jones Firestone tire, which is a less common, high-performance tire. By checking Firestone sales records, the Monterey police were able to identify a purchaser of the tire brand in California, and this suspect eventually confessed to the murder.

"Tire Imprint Evidence (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations)" is a book authored by McDonald in the Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations, published by CRC Press in November 1992.

McDonald appeared on three episodes of "Forensic Files," a true-crime television series: "Treads and Threads" and "Treading Not So Lightly" in 2001, and "Road Rage" in 2006.