The first critical step in crime scene investigation
What is securing and isolating the crime scene?
100
The 3 crime scene search patterns commonly used to search for and collect evidence
What are spiral, grid, and line?
100
The medical dissection and examination of a body in order to determine the cause of death.
What is an autopsy?
100
Forensic anthropologists have this responsibility, or role, in the investigation team
What is the identification and examination of human skeletal remains?
100
The reason teeth can be used to identify someone.
They're unique to individuals.
200
Any object that can establish that a crime has or has not been commlink a crime and its victim or its perpetrator.
What is physical evidence?
200
Search pattern that would require more than one investigator.
What is line?
200
Forensic pathologists can have one of these two titles (are also known as)
What is a medical examiner or a coroner?
200
Method of determining the gender of the skeletal remains
What are measuring the size and determining the shape of the pelvis?
200
This occurs after death, causing the muscles to become stiff and the body rigid. It starts within 24 hours and disappears within 36 hours of death.
What is rigor mortis?
300
The 3 methods of crime scene recording.
What are photography, sketches, and notes?
300
The best way to store bloodstained evidence
What is a paper envelope?
300
Natural, Accidental, Homicidal, and Suicidal
What are the four manners of death?
300
This team member studies insects and the stage of their life cycles on and around a body to determine the approximate time the body has been at the location in which it was found.
What is a forensic entomologist?
300
This occurs after death and results in the settling of blood in areas of the body closest to the ground.
What is livor mortis?
400
The most important requirement for photographing a crime scene.
What is undisturbed (or unaltered)?
400
This must be established whenever evidence is collected if it is to be presented as evidence in court.
What is Chain of Custody?
400
The main reasons an autopsy is performed
What are unexpected, unexplained, or supicious?
400
These first insects to arrive on the scene, usually within 24 hours
What are blowflies?
400
This process occurs after death. The body temperature gradually and continually cools until the body reaches the ambient or room temperature
What is algor mortis?
500
The steps involved in investigating a crime scene.
What are:
1. Securing and isolating the scene
2. Photographing the scene
3. Sketching the scene
4. Taking detailed notes describing the scene
5. Gathering evidence
500
Six items that are needed to collect evidence
What are forceps, gloves, paper for bindles, bottles, envelopes, and plastic bags?
500
If a decomposed body is found, what evidence can help an investigator or pathologist estimate how long it has been there?
What are insects?
500
Approximate length of time of a blowfly life cycle, from egg deposition to adult fly emergence
What is 15 days?
500
The first priority of the responding officer at a crime scene
What is treating injuries and moving victims who are in danger of being harmed?