Fingerprints
All fingerprints fall into one of these three categories
What are arches, loops, and whirls?
This serial killer is considered the United States' first serial killed and it is believed he killed upwards of 200 people.
The subfield of forensic science that involves the study of the teeth for the purposes of information and identification.
What is forensic odontology?
This trial is the origin of the phrase "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit!"
What is The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson?
This condition causes a body to go "stiff" after death.
What is rigor mortis?
The system used by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to find a match to a latent print.
What is AFIS?
This serial killer was a contestant on The Dating Game in the 1970s-and won.
Who is Rodney Alcala?
The subfield of forensic science that involves the retrieval and identification of human remains.
What is forensic anthropology?
Same three other individual prints found on humans
What are lip, palm, ear, toes
This condition causes red discoloration of the skin after death
What is livor mortis?
This animal's fingerprints are virtually indistinguishable from a human's.
What is a koala?
This serial killer was caught because of a floppy disk.
Who is Dennis Rader/BTK Killer?
The subfield of forensic science that studies the presence of toxic substance inside a body and the effect that they had on the individual.
What is forensic toxicology?
What is the Spanish word for turkey?
Turquía
The body at a crime scene is under the jurisdiction of this law enforcement office.
What is the coroner's office, or medical examiner?
In this print, ridge patterns enter and exit on the same side of the finger
Loop
This serial killer that inspired Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, and Leatherface.
Who is Ed Gein?
The subfield of forensic science that applies of the study of the mind to legal and criminal matters.
What is forensic psychology?
In this type of print, a line may be drawn through the whorl between two deltas
plain whorl
What is the most common type of fingerprint?
loop
This group of ancient people were the first to use fingerprints as a form of personal identification.
Who are the Chinese?
This serial killer claimed 17 victims throughout the '70s and '80s, killing them by releasing them into the Alaskan wilderness and hunting them like animals.
Who is Robert Hansen/The Butcher Baker?
The subfield of forensic science that involves the extraction and analysis of digital evidence.
What is Digital Forensics?
In this print, a line drawn between two deltas does not intersect the whorl
central pocket whorl
When do fingerprints form?
What is the womb?