Who is thought by many to be the father of forensic toxicology?
Who is Mathieu Orfila
100
Follows a chain of objects that are obviously evidence.
What is a point to point movement
100
Method of operation of the offender, and other circumstances that can be observed during this survey may suggest possible clues.
What is modus operandi
100
The application of scientific techniques
What is criminalistics
100
Involves eyewitnesses who have, through one or more of their five senses, experienced something relative to the crime in question or its circumstances
What is direct evidence
200
I am the person in a case that you read that killed his ex-girlfriend and appealed my conviction by raising several issues.
Who is Timothy Shepherd
200
The reverse of an ever-widening circle, in which the searching officer starts at the outskirts of the crime scene and works toward its focal point.
What is an ever-widening circle
200
Evidence from which an inference can be drawn.
What is circumstantial evidence
200
When a criminal comes into contact with another object or person, a cross-transfer of evidence occurs primarily of hairs and fibers.
What is exchange principle
200
Seeks help from witnesses but also offers rewards and gives confidentiality
What is the silent witness program
300
Persuaded the police department in Lyons, France, to finance a small police laboratory.
Who is Edmond Locard
300
Begins after the strip search is completed
What is a grid search
300
When witnesses discuss the crime or overhear others talking about the crime, they tend to adopt some of this information as their own or alter their recollections to fit with those of other witnesses.
What is retroactive intereference
300
A time based log that documents when an officer enters and leaves the crime scene
What is a chronological log
300
The study of projectiles in flight
What is exterior ballistics
400
Is found at the scene of the crime.
Who is the willing witness
400
A search that subdivides into segments and each sector is searched as an individual unit.
What is a zone or sector search
400
This test starts with applying adhesive tapes to the person's hands.
What is gunshot residue examination
400
Must be established when evidence is proffered in court as an exhibit.
What is the chain of possession
400
Identification of firearms, bullets, cartridges, and shotgun shells.
What are ballistics
500
Provided the first definitive study of fingerprints in the book.
Who is Francis Galton
500
The reverse of an ever-widening circle, in which the searching officer starts at the outskirts of the crime scene and works toward its focal point.
What is an ever-narrowing circle.
500
Bloody fingerprints left on weapons or at the scene of a crime.
What are contaminated prints
500
This system involves the taking of eleven measurements of various parts of the body-such as height, reach, head width and length of left foot-along with a photograph of the subject.
What is anthropometry
500
Markings left on a surface by protruding parts of a person or vehicle.