Crime Scene Protocol
The first step taken by a first responder at a crime scene.
What is securing the crime scene?
This type of physical evidence appears in small quantities and can include hairs, fibers, or soil.
What is trace evidence?
A small, round drop of blood typically indicates this.
What are passive or gravitational drops?
The medical examiner determines this based on the injury or disease.
What is cause of death?
This man’s bite mark helped convict him of the Chi Omega murders.
Who is Ted Bundy?
This shows locations of evidence and dimensions of the scene.
What is crime scene sketch?
The three basic fingerprint patterns.
What are arches, loops, and whorls?
The direction of blood travel can be determined by looking at this part of the spatter.
What is the tail of the drop?
Manners of deaths can be classified into one of these 5 categories.
What is homicidal, accidental, suicidal, natural, or unknown?
This famous criminal inspired the character Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Who is Ed Gein?
The process of systematically recording the crime scene through images and sketches
What is documentation?
When physical evidence has characteristics unique to an individual source, such as a specific fingerprint or DNA profile.
What is individual evidence?
This type of bloodstain is caused by an impact, like a gunshot.
What is high-velocity spatter?
This term refers to the settling of blood in the body after death.
What is livor mortis?
This serial killer is known for consuming his victims.
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
Ensuring unbiased accounts of the crime
What is separating the witnesses?
This is the term for a unique point used to compare fingerprints.
What is a minutiae point?
Blood spatter analysts can determine this about the suspect's position.
What is the angle of impact?
The stiffening of muscles after death is called this.
What is rigor mortis?
This serial killer was caught because of a floppy disk.
Who is Dennis Rader/BTK Killer?
This principle states that every contact leaves a trace.
What is Locard's Principle
This kind of print is visible without enhancement, such as in blood or ink.
What are patent prints?
The type of blood spatter pattern is created when a blood-soaked object comes into contact with another surface.
What is a transfer pattern?
This method of determining time of death uses body temperature.
What is algor mortis?
This case featured false confessions and was later overturned by DNA evidence, inspiring the Innocence Project.
Who are the Central Park Five?