Items touched and left at a crime scene, often contain minute amounts of body fluids. The cells from these objects can be collected by various methods. Using the microFLOQ™ direct collection device, which contains a swab with lysing reagent at the tip, epithelial cells from various touched evidence were collected, and extracted. The extracted DNA was quantified using Real Time PCR.  The results indicated that STR DNA profiles can be successfully generated from touched evidence.