Evidence
Eye witness testimony is this type of evidence.
What is direct evidence?
A plane crashed outside of Southern California airfield. This is the search pattern investigators will use to find the crash site.
What is the Line/Parallel search pattern?
This is the direction of North in this room.
What is toward the wall with the periodic table on it?
This is the number one priority of a first responder.
What is ensuring the safety of all individuals on the scene?
This is what is always written on the first line of the chain of custody document.
Received From: _______________
What is the location where the evidence was collected from?
Received From: Crime Scene
A Franklin fire shirt are these 2 types of evidence.
What is indirect, class evidence?
Three women died in a cave in St. Louis Canyon. This is the search pattern investigators will use to find evidence in the cave.
What is the zone/quadrant method?
This is a pole, wall, or fire hydrant, in a crime scene sketch.
What is a datum (fixed) point?
This is how you triangulate a piece of evidence.
What is a method of measurement where the evidence is measured from two fixed datum points.
This is the reason it is important to separate witnesses.
What is to prevent the witnesses from talking to each other?
Saliva are these 2 types of evidence.
What is indirect, individual evidence?
A man is found dead near the US/Mexico border in the Sonoran desert. This is the search pattern investigators will use to search for evidence related to this man.
What is the spiral search pattern?
These are the six components on a crime scene sketch.
What are the scale, direction of north, name of sketch artist, case number, date, and location?
This is the formula that is used to check that your corner angles are correct in a crime scene sketch.
What is Pythagorean Theorem?
These are the six basic questions to ask when interviewing a witness.
What are:
When did the crime occur?
Who notified law enforcement?
Who is the victim?
Can the perpetrator be identified?
What did you see?
Where were you when the crime occurred?
This is Locard's Exchange Principle.
What is the principle that states anyone entering a crime scene will leave something behind and take something with them?
A friend of your's lost her earring on the soccer field. This is the type of search pattern you should use to find it.
What is the grid method?
A crime scene is 20ft by 15ft. If I am drawing a sketch with a scale that is 1in to 5ft, this is the dimensions of the crime scene in my sketch.
What is 4in by 3in?
These are the three proper steps for collecting wet soil evidence from a crime scene.
What is to (1) place the soil in a paper bindle to dry, then (2) secure paper bindle in plastic evidence bag, and (3) label the bag and start chain of custody?
These are made when there are no fixed points in the crime scene area.
What are subdatum points?
A robbery has occurred at Circle K during the rain storm. The perpetrator left behind dirty footprints on the floor that are an example of this kind of evidence.
What is indirect, class evidence?
A robbery occurred inside your home. Investigators will likely use this method to search for evidence.
What is the zone/quadrant search method?
An assault occurred last night at a warehouse rave. The warehouse measures 132ft by 108ft. If my scale is 1in is 30ft, these are the dimensions of my crime scene sketch to the 16th of an inch.
What is 4 and 6/16ths of an inch by 3 and 10 16ths of an inch.
This is why it is important to document and secure the scene completely and correctly.
What is that everything that is secured and documented in a crime is used in a trial and any evidence or portion of the crime scene that is not secured can be throw out as faulty, unreliable evidence in the court of law.
A live shooter was arrested at a concert in Las Vegas. This is the secondary crime scene.
What is the shooter's home and/or property?