Forensics
This person uses blood patterns to reconstruct crimes and help solve what happened.
What is a blood spatter analyst?
This type of news story includes opinion.
What is the federal government?
This young man was fatally shot while inside of a vehicle after entering a farm property.
Who is Colten Boushie?
These are formed by one egg and one sperm meeting and then later splitting to create two.
What are identical twins?
This forensic evidence was used by the prosecution in the Casey Anthony case and the reliability of this evidence was deeply questioned by the defense.
These types of crime stories are most frequently covered by news media.
What are violent crime stories?
This is one of the requirements to gun ownership in Canada.
What is a background check or obtaining a gun license or registering your firearm?
The conservative government of Manitoba used this as a lobbying point in an attempt to get more votes in the provincial election.
What is the landfill search for missing Indigenous women? (i.e. cost, safety, etc.)
A free defense lawyer.
Investigators wrongfully matched this man's fingerprints to a partial print from the Madrid bombings.
A victim who brings in a lot of viewership/ subscribers/ profit to a news company would be considered this.
What is an ideal victim?
In Bowling for Columbine, filmmaker Michael Moore pleaded with Charleston Heston, the leader of this association, to make change changes surrounding gun culture in the USA.
What is the NRA?
The verdict of the Gerald Stanley trial.
What is not guilty?
This is the leading cause of death amongst children and teens in the US.
What is gun violence?
This person working in forensics would test for drugs, alcohol or poisons in the body.
What is a toxicologist?
To present information in a way that provokes public interest and excitement at the expense of accuracy.
What is sensationalize?
A shooting at this university in Montreal led to major gun reform in Canada in the 1990s.
What is E'cole Polytechnique?
DAILY DOUBLE - You can wager your total score OR up to $1000 if you have less than $1000.
The current premier of Manitoba who advocated for landfills to be searched for Mercedes Myran and Morgan Harris.
A term to describe the media's disproportionate focus on missing young, white and often middle-upper class women compared to missing people of colour and other demographics.
What is missing white woman syndrome?
What piece of DNA was used in the German Jewelry Heist to direct investigators to twins Hassan and Abbas.
What is a sweat droplet?
The media tends to focus more on crimes committed by _______ rather than more common crimes committed by ________.
There have been approximately this many mass shootings in the USA in 2025 alone.
What is over 400?
The Canadian national public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls was launched in this year, after the issue lasting decades.
What is 2015?
A project that uses forensic evidence (and other evidence) to help free hundreds of people who have been wrongfully convicted.
What is the Innocence Project?