Fingerprints
This is the type of fingerprint that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
What is a latent fingerprint?
This material is ideal for preserving tire track evidence.
What is plaster casting?
This term refers to the placement of dots on “i’s” and crosses on “t’s” in handwriting analysis.
What are diacritics?
Deleted files can often be recovered from this section of a computer’s memory.
What is unallocated space?
The BTK killer’s real name is this.
Who is Dennis Rader?
The unique ridge characteristics in a fingerprint are referred to as this.
What are minutiae?
These impressions are created when a shoe makes a mark in soft soil.
What are plastic impressions?
Erasures in documents are most often detected using this type of light.
What is UV light?
This challenge complicates the collection of digital evidence due to privacy and security.
What is data encryption and volume?
BTK stands for this chilling description of his crimes.
What is Bind, Torture, Kill?
Fingerprints that appear in soft materials like wax or clay are known as these.
What are plastic fingerprints?
Investigators can determine the gait and direction of movement of a suspect
What are shoe impressions?
This method separates the ink components of a questioned document.
What is chromatography?
This biometric technology identifies individuals using fingerprints or signatures.
What is biometric verification?
Dennis Rader was captured after evidence was found on this type of digital device.
What is a floppy disk?
This fingerprint pattern contains two deltas and a core.
What is a whorl?
Tool marks are classified as this type of evidence when they match specific tool features.
What is individual evidence?
Handwriting analysis is considered this because it depends on the examiner’s expertise.
What is subjective?
Retina scanners and biometric pads primarily assist with this.
What is verifying identity?
The BTK killer often taunted law enforcement and media using these.
What are letters and packages?
The scientific study of fingerprints is called this
What is dactyloscopy?
The first step in preserving tire track evidence is this.
What is photographing the tracks?
Guiding the spelling or punctuation when collecting handwriting samples makes the evidence this.
What is invalid or unacceptable?
Digital evidence is easily tampered with due to this inherent weakness.
What is it can be edited or altered?
The BTK killer referred to himself with this moniker containing his initials.
What is “BTK”?
To determine if a loop is radial or ulnar, you must know this critical detail.
What is which hand the print came from?
Shoe size impressions can help determine this about a suspect.
What is the suspect's height and weight?
This feature of handwriting examines the pressure applied to the page while writing.
What is pen pressure?
This method ensures deleted data cannot be easily recovered from a device.
What is data wiping?
Rader’s downfall began when police tracked metadata from this type of file.
What is a Word document?
This fingerprint preservation technique involves dusting with a contrasting powder and then photographing it.
What is lifting a fingerprint?
Tool marks found on doors or windows can identify this about the tool used.
What are unique wear patterns?
Experts often compare handwriting based on this visible slant of letters.
What is writing style consistency?
Digital evidence like emails and metadata must meet this legal requirement to be admissible in court.
What is chain of custody?
The BTK killer committed his first known murders in this year.
What is 1974?