Forensic Sciences
Any object that can establish that a crime has or has not been committed or can link a crime and its victim or its perpetrator.
What is Physical Evidence?
The thing used in the first case ever recorded using forensic science in 13th Century China
What are flies? What is blood? (Both acceptable)
This cold case was solved using a sculpture to find the suspect.
What are the List Murders?
The Bill of Rights
Bonus x2: Name 4
What are the first 10 Amendments?
These people illegally claimed land in the Unassigned lands before the Oklahoma Land Run officially started.
Who are Sooners?
The scientific process of determining the kind of gun and bullet used in a crime.
What is ballistic finger printing?
Published the first Sherlock Holmes story thus kicking off the idea of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Despite multiple pieces of incriminating evidence, this person was found innocent in the murder of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman
OJ Simpson
Laws written into the constitution of the U.S.A.
Bonus x2: Laws which dictated how the U.S. Government would operate (3 branches, checks and balances)
What are amendments?
Bonus: What are articles of the constitution?
The man who assassinated Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Swab of the inner cheek, performed to collect cells for use in determining DNA.
What is buccal swab?
Considered the "father of the FBI" this man abused his authority with unjustified investigations & illegal wire taps based on political beliefs rather than suspected criminal activity
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
This was found in JonBennet Ramsey's stomach during her autopsy.
Pineapple
When fathers are the undisputed head of households
What is a patriarchal system?
This event resulted in 28 murdered Chinese miners, 78 burned down Chinese homes, and $115,000 worth of property damage
Bonus x2: Act passed by congress that limited Chinese immigration into the U.S.
What is the Rock Springs Riot?
What is the Chinese exclusion act?
Measures the amount of alcohol or other abused drugs in the body for violations of criminal law, can also assess the toxicity of a drug or poison.
What is a toxicologist?
Discoverer of the A, B, and O blood groups
Who is Karl Landsteiner?
His whereabouts are currently unknown after his girlfriend's body was found in Wyoming.
Who is Brain Laundrie?
Rampant persecution for not adhering to specific laws regarding religion in Europe, not being able to own land, and taxes.
What are reasons people left England for the Americas?
This military strategy caused unprecedented destruction and violence across the south during the Civil War and today is considered a war crime.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Categories of Evidence (there are two)
What is class evidence?- Narrows identity to a group of persons/ things. (blood type)
What is individual evidence?- Narrows identity to a single person/ thing. (finger print)
Sir Alec Jeffrey's discovery
What is DNA fingerprinting?
John Ramsey moving JonBenet Ramsey's body after death
Allowing people to walk through the house/ crime scene
What is, the police not properly maintaining the crime scene?
Punishments for not attending church twice a day (there are three, rising in severity for each day missed)
What is losing food for the day, being whipped/ flogged, and six months of rowing in the colony's galleys)
This justice system was unique to the wild west and gave rise to vigilante/ posse groups.
What is the bounty system?