History of Forensics
The Crime Lab
Evidence
The Crime Scene
Mystery Category
100
This U.S. Army colonel was the first to use a comparison microscope to match a bullet with the weapon that fired it.
Who is Calvin Goddard?
100
This unit of a crime lab analyzes blood and DNA evidence.
What is the Biological Unit?
100
An ordinary mailing envelope is considered a good general-purpose evidence container. (True or False)
What is true.
100
Offering medical assistance for individuals in need, arresting a present perpetrator, and securing and isolating the area are the responsibilities of this individual.
Who is the first officer to arrive on a crime scene?
100
This is the best type of blood to give as a transfusion to a person who is type A+.
What is type A+ blood?
200
This Frenchman's exchange principle states that 'Every Contact Leaves a Trace'
Who is Edmond Locard?
200
This unit examines physical evidence such as glass, paint, soil, and explosives.
What is the Physical Science unit?
200
A list of all people who came into possession of an item of evidence.
What is a chain o f custody?
200
Notes, Photography, and Sketches
What are the basic steps of crime scene recording?
200
To meet this, a court must decide whether a questioned procedure, technique, or principle is 'general accepted' by a meaningful segment of the relevant scientific community.
What is the Frye Standard?
300
This author popularized the idea of using scientific principles to solve crime with his Sherlock Holmes series.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
300
This unit examines cartridge cases, discharge residue, and ammunition of all types.
What is the Ballistics Unit? (will accept Firearms unit)
300
A fiber from a sweater sold at Walmart found at a crime scene is an example of this type of physical evidence.
What is class evidence?
300
These two search patterns, when used in conjunction, would result in one large area first being separated in to four squares, then each square being searched by a team of two who performed line searches originating from adjacent corners forming perpendicular lines.
What are the quadrant (zone) and grid search patterns? (Must get both correct)
300
The three major avenues available to assist police in solving a crime are physical evidence, eyewitness accounts by witnesses or victims, and this.
What is a confession?
400
He developed a method for classifying fingerprints for filing that he described in his 1892 'Finger Prints'.
Who is Francis Galton?
400
The FBI's crime lab that we virtually toured at the beginning of this class was the worlds largest and was located in _________.
What is Quantico, Virginia?
400
DNA is an example of this type of physical evidence.
What is individual evidence?
400
This draft representation of all essential information and measurements of the area is completed at the crime scene.
What is a rough sketch?
400
The following are collected at the scene of a murder- a piece of glass from a tail light, a brown hair, a small piece of an ear, an unopened tube of lipstick, a single latent fingerprint, a handwritten note, a red skittle, and three lima beans. How many pieces of individual evidence were collected?
What is three?
500
This medical school teacher is known as 'The Father of Toxicolgy.'
Who is Mathieu Orfila?
500
One of the most recent impetus leading to growth of crime labs has been the advent of this technology, which has resulted in substantial backlog of unanalyzed samples.
What is DNA Profiling? (accept DNA, DNA technology)
500
A great example is when you hug your friend with curly blond hair, then find a curly blond hair on your sweater the next time you grab it out of your closet.
What is Locard's Exchange Principle?
500
In the Michigan v. Tyler case, a business owner was suspected of intentionally burning down their building to collect insurance money. It did not result in a conviction and emphasizes the importance of having this item.
What is a search warrant?
500
An investigator at a murder scene notes signs of a prolonged struggle between the attacker and victim. Name three types of physical evidence the investigator might collect from this crime scene and classify each as individual or class.
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