Seven S's
The first S in crime scene investigation.
What is securing the scene?
This was the first piece of evidence found at the house in the JonBenet Case.
What is the ransom note?
Fingerprints.
What is circumstantial and individual?
Described the physical transfer of evidence in 1910.
Who is Edmond Locard?
They look into blood stain patterns and determine trajectory. Dexter.
Who are bloodstain pattern analysts?
True or false: Hair is a type of trace evidence.
The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence
This is the last step in investigating a crime scene.
What is securing and collecting evidence?
This is the door that Laura was seen leaving from.
What is the front door?
Video surveillance recordings.
What is direct?
First described fingerprinting.
Who is Francis Galton?
They use bugs to determine time and location of death.
Who is a forensic entomologist?
The actively growing base of a hair that contains nuclear DNA and living cells.
What is the hair follicle?
Material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group
What is class evidence
A proper one has a compass pointing north, a distance scale, and all important markers at a crime scene.
What is a sketch of the crime scene?
True or False. This case is an example of a well maintained crime scene.
What is false?
Daily Double: Blood type.
What is class?
Founded DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s.
Who is Alec Jeffreys?
They examine hard tissue to determine cause and time of death.
Who are forensic anthropologists?
If hair is not firmly attached to clothing, it must first be__________.
What is photographed in situ?
A kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing
What is individual evidence
There are four different patterns for this.
What is searching for evidence?
This was recovered from the bloody pillowcase along with a mark that indicates a knife. (Beaten by a Hair)
What is a partial fingerprint?
Scars/tattoos.
What is individual?
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
They usually have an advanced medical degree and examine the body to determine cause of death.
Who are medical examiners?
Clothing fibers transferred from a person to another person is called ___________ transfer.
What is direct?
A permanent, fixed point of reference used in mapping a crime scene
What is datum point
Daily double: This step helps avoid collusion.
What is separating the witnesses?
This was ruled to be from a transfer process in manufacturing and could no longer be used to rule out suspects.
What is the DNA in the clothes/underwear?
Bodily fluids.
What is circumstantial and individual?
Wrote Sherlock Holmes prompting a media interest into crime novels.
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
They should be at a crime scene to ensure that evidence is being properly collected and all of it can be used in prosecution.
Who is the district attorney?
Fibers can be evidence when they are considered this kind of evidence by investigators.
What is individual?
The principle that states that when a person comes into contact with an object or another person, a cross transfer of physical evidence can occur
What is Locard's principal of exchange