Evidence
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This process allows the lead investigator an opportunity to gain an overview of the scene in order to formulate a search and processing plan.
What is an initial walk-through?
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This is the place where the investigative team receives their assignments, stores equipment including what is needed for photography and sketching
What is the command center?
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The place where the original crime occured.
What is the primary crime scene?
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This place may become part of the crime scene after the crime is committed.
What is the secondary crime scene?
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These are the jobs (in order) of the first responding officer to the crime scene.
What is render medical aid, arrest perpetrator, and secure crime scene?
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Taping, guarding and leaving a crime scene undisturbed may be the result of a crime occurring at this time.
What is at night?
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These are three ways that a crime scene can remain unaltered.
What is barricades, taping off crime scene, and strategic positioning of guards?
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Four actions that are prohibited by officers at a crime scene.
What is eating, drinking, smoking, changing the temperature, running faucets, flushing toilet?
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If the crime scene is not protected, these are two problems that may exist.
What is the perpetrator not being arrested quickly and evidence can be destroyed or altered.
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The reason barricades are used at a crime scene.
What is to keep out unauthorized personnel, media?
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Tool marks, footprints, and point of entry and exit are some of the evidence sought out at this type of crime scene.
What is a burglary?
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The reason a crime scene is searched.
What is to collect physical evidence?
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Three ways to help determine the time frame in which a crime occured.
What is clothing on victim, newspaper in or out of home, food eaten/cooked, packages delivered?
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Two or more people overlapping separate line searches, starting and ending in adjacent corners.
What is a grid search?
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The process of blood pooling after the heart stops beating. It can be used to determine if the body has been moved.
What is liver mortis?
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The body temperature changing to reach room temperature, beginning about an hour after death.
What is algor mortis?
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The scene is divided into small areas and searched. Required multiple people.
What is a zone or quadrant search?
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The first action by the arriving officer.
What is rendering medical aid?
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Moving in a circular pattern inward or outward. May be completed by just one investigator.
What is a spiral search?
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One that studies bones.
What is an anthropologist?
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Investigators will position themselves in a circle and move inward toward the center of the crime.
What is the wheel/ray search pattern?
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Muscles become rigid usually occurring within the first 24 hours and disappearing within 35 hours.
What is rigor mortis?
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How an entomologist may estimate the time of death (name 2 ways).
What is looking for eggs, looking for maggots?
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The first people that officer will seek out when arriving at the crime scene.
What is victim, witnesses, suspects?
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The 'center of the crime'.
What is the location of the actual crime?