Processing a Crime Scene
An object found at a crime scene whose origin can be traced to one person or source.
Individual Evidence
The most common fingerprint pattern.
Loops
These markers found on your red blood cells tell you what blood type you have.
Agglutinogens / Antigens
Search pattern used when you are by yourself and you work your way inward.
Spiral
Shoeprints, fibers, tiretracks are all examples of what type of evidence.
Class
The mnemonic device used to remember the steps to processing a crime scene.
PPPSCRIPT
Ridge structure that starts off as one ridge and splits up into 2.
Bifurcation (Fork)
Blood stains/drops formed by the force of gravity acting alone.
Passive Blood Stains
Tails you the direction in which the blood drop is moving.
Tail
Evidence that is small in amount or small in size.
Trace Evidence
You are using this search pattern when you search a house room by room.
Name of the criminal who's famous for trying to remove his fingerprints.
John Dillinger
Type of spatter produced by gunshots, powertools, and explosions.
High velocity spatter
The R in PPPSCRIPT
Record
Ridge structure that is found in the center of a fingerprint and at the top of a loop.
Core
The number one priority when at a crime scene. (PPPSCRIPT)
Preserving Life
The fingerprint pattern with 2 deltas
Whorls
The universal recipient blood type. (include whether it's + or -).
AB+
Bloodstains that occur when a bloodied object is in motion. Can leave linear stains on ceilings and walls.
Cast-off Stains
Type of animal scientists used to study that helped them discover the rhesus protein found in blood.
Monkey
The failure to notice a fully-visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object.
Inattentional Blindness
The study of fingerprint identification
Quick test that determines blood type, performed by adding antibodies to blood and see if there is a reaction.
Precipitin Test
Takes possession of and collects the evidence off of bodies.
Coroner/Medical Examiner
We find and compare these markings on fingerprints in order to identify who they belong to.
Minutiae