Bitemark Analysis
The scientific name of bitemark analysis
What is forensic odontology?
The number of people exonerated whose convictions were based on faulty arson investigation
What is 63 people?
The animal whose hair was called an “exact match” with now exonerated Santae Tribble by FBI forensic examiners.
What is a dog?
Because blood stain pattern analysts are often present at crime scenes, their is heightened concern that they will have this type of bias.
contextual bias
Shoe print examiners typically put evidence into 1 of 3 categories: identification, nonidentification, AND …
What is inconclusive?
This number of individuals have been convicted based on bitemark analysis
What is 26?
The first guidelines for Fire Sciences Investigations was published this year
What is 1992?
Two types of macroscopic features that are examined in hair analysis (multiple correct answers)
What is length, color?
(also accepting: treatment, shaft form, shaft thickness)
Taking this type of medication / drug will affect the way one’s blood spatters.
What are anticoagulants?
What is 2016 PCAST Report?
The main issue with Dr. West's method in the Stubbs & Vance case
What is he contaminated the injury by pressing molds into the skin?
The error rate for determining the origins of a fire after flashover
What is 75%?
This type of forensic science has lessened the reliance on microscopic hair comparison
What is DNA analysis / mitochondrial DNA testing?
This commissioned document stated that the uncertainties associated with bloodstain pattern analysis were “enormous”.
What is 2009 NAS Report?
Rhyming phrase that accounts for many of the individual characteristics present in a shoe print
What is wear and tear?
The main issues identified in the 2009 National Academy of Sciences Report
What is 1) uniqueness of human bite not established, 2) ability of human skin to maintain uniqueness of the bitemark not established, and 3) the standard of when a bitemark meets an evidentiary quality not established?
Plausible alternative causes of the fire in Willingham's case
What are electrical causes or accidental ignition?
The number of hairs that should be taken from a known sample’s head for comparison
What is 50?
Three types of blood patterns that can appear at a crime scene, are: 1) splash / splatter pattern; 2) flow pattern; and 3) …
What is a pool pattern?
Method of shoe print preservation that is used on 3D prints left in materials like soil, sand, mud or snow.
What is casting?
Iconic Arizona case of wrongful conviction due to bitemark analysis
Who is Ray Krone?
The mandatory guideline performance criteria from NFPA 1321
What are; systematic approach to investigation, methodical examination of the scene, accurate documentation of findings, ability to reliably interview witnesses, and ability to analyze fire patterns?
The length of time that Santae Tribble was behind bars based on faulty hair comparison evidence.
What is 26 years?
Bloodstain pattern analysis is unique in that while other forensic sciences simply seek to identify a source of the evidence, blood pattern analysts often attempt to …
What is reconstruct the crime scene?
This is the method of preserving and enhancing 2D shoe prints often left on plastic, glass or metal.
What is superglue fuming?