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the place where an offence has been committed and forensic evidence may be gathered is called:
a crime scene
a person who helps another commit a crime is called:
an accomplice
a person, typically a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes is called:
a detective
The unique pattern created by the ridges found on the palm side skin of fingers and thumbs is called:
Fingerprint
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What do you call a person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place?
a witness
An individual who has murdered three or more people with a cooling-off period in between is called:
a serial killer
The internal medical examination of a body used to determine the cause and circumstances of death is called:
an autopsy
a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place is called:
an alibi
What word describes a person that is not guilty of a crime or offence
innocent
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What do you call a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offence:
a suspect
What does CSI stand for?
Crime Scene Investigation
The science of projectiles, particularly bullets is called:
Ballistics
Toxicology is the study of:
drugs and poisons and their effects on the body
An attempt to replicate the original item and pass it off as authentic is called a
forgery
An unsolved case which is still open but no longer being actively investigated is called:
a cold case
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Biology, Psychology, Chemistry, Physics
Any items, documents and statements that are included in a legal investigation for the jury’s or judge’s consideration in the determination of an individual’s guilt or innocence is called:
evidence