CSI
Three things the first responding officer will do.
What are: Check the victim, secure the crime scene, apprehend any suspects, interview witnesses & report to their superior officers?
The application of different medical specialties to legal issues.
What is Forensic Medicine?
The study of the life cycles & distribution of insects to help solve a crime.
What is Forensic Entomology?
This is the name given to the first incision made during an autopsy.
What is the Y incision?
How reliable are eyewitness accounts
What is they are wrong 90% of the time?
Where the criminal act occurred.
What is the Primary Crime Scene?
A forensic pathologist who does autopsies to determine cause, manner, and mode of death.
What is a Medical Examiner?
The category of insects found on dead organisms.
What are Carrion Insects?
This must be done to the brain after it is removed before it can be examined.
What is put in a jar of formaldehyde?
This refers to the medical or forensic reason for death
What is the Cause of death?
Where the body was dumped.
What is the Secondary Crime Scene?
This refers to the way the death was accomplished.
What is the Manner of Death?
Where bodies decompose faster.
What is in hot wet areas?
This is the main thing that holds the brain in place.
What is the Spinal Cord?
An MD who studies injuries and disease to determine the cause and manner of death.
What is a Forensic Pathologist?
The lead investigators and case offices conduct this preliminary survey of the crime scene.
What is the Walk-through?
The discoloration of the skin after death.
What is Livor Mortis?
DAILY DOUBLE
The life cycle of insects, in the correct order.
What is Eggs, Larvae, Maggots, & Adult?
This is the term means to check the stomach, intestines, and bowels for content as well as abnormalities.
What is “Run the Gut”?
The stiffening of the body.
What is Rigor Mortis?
MO stands for this.
What is Mode of Operation?
The three stages of death, in the correct order.
What are: Perimortem, Postmortem & Decomposition?
The five different stages of decomposition, in the correct order.
What is Flesh stage, Bloated stage, Decay stage, Post-decay stage, and Skeletal stage?
In this type of method, all of the organs are removed at the same time.
What is the Rokitansky Method?
The phrase used to indicate any evidence has always been secured.
What is the Chain of Custody?