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Prosecutors contend that the hair simply broke inside an evidence bag.

I think the defense might be right here. While I have had hairs break off while one end was still attached to my head, I have never seen a loose hair break. Period. Especially while it was in a bag.

Go ahead, try it. Put 1000 hairs in 1000 bags. See if any of them break.

Second issue is that the if Scott took the tool box from the house and put it in the boat, there was plenty of time & opportunity for a hair to get in it.

My wife has long hair and it is everywhere. She has never been to my office, but her hair is common in there. I find a strand every month or so, just in the ordinary course of events. I'm sure a search for her hair would turn up at least a dozen strands in my office.

Take a hair and wedge it into the middle of a pair of needle-nose pliers. Leave it there for a while. Come back later, and try very carefully to extricate the hair from the pliers w/o breaking the hair. You might succeed, but chances are the hair will have at least one weak spot on it, the spot where it was stuck in the pliers. It may also have a couple of stretched places on it, where you pulled it, while trying to get it out of there. The weak spot, or a stretched spot, might break.